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Re: Doubts about pointers

Subject: Re: Doubts about pointers
From: Richard Heathfield
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:43:17 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c

ymuntyan@xxxxxxxxx said:

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> Last time you first talked about issues being
> not serious enough because you don't need access
> to compiler source code for a fix (nice measure,
> "just fix it and you're done"), then you finally
> admitted there were even more serious issues.

Well, I accepted that you (or whoever it was) weren't just making stuff up. 
Was that a wrong assumption?

> Now again, "hardly serious ones". Have you got a
> new scale?

No, I don't even have a list. Do you?

>> > Sadly, it only confirms that you
>> > are advocating Turbo C just because you've done
>> > it and you won't admit you were wrong ("sadly"
>> > part if a joke, yes).
>>
>> I'm not *advocating* it. I'm just refusing to condemn it out of hand,
>> that's all. For most purposes, it's fine, and I don't see why people are
>> making out that it's a heap of junk, when it clearly isn't.
> 
> It's not a heap of junk, it's a compiler released
> before the standard has been published.

Yes, by about a week (or whatever). Big deal.

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