Re: [PATCH] C undefined behavior fix

dewar
2002-01-04T12:15:44Z

<<But this is not the memory model of C! Adding an offset to a pointer
is an operation involving objects defined by the C language, and not
machine registers. Sometimes, this makes a noticeable difference.
>>

Indeed Alex Stepanov notes that Ada unlike C, *does* have general pointer
arithmetic, assuming a linear address space, and finds the lack of this in
C a problem :-) :-)