On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:54:04 -0600, in comp.lang.c , Thad Smith
<Th*******@acm.orgwrote:
>Pointers are objects stored in some number of bytes. A group of bytes
can be interpreted as a bit string, which can be interpreted as an
integer. What's the big deal about interpreting a group of bytes as an
integer?
Nothing. This doesn't mean that a pointer *is* an integer.
>You can say the same thing about floating point representations.
Indeed. This does not mean a floating point number *is* an integer.
Thank you for making my point...
--
Mark McIntyre
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan
