20 Dec
2016
20 Dec
'16
6:24 p.m.
Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
I wonder why it was written as
"0177776->integ", rather than "*017776"?
Probably the former allowed the C compiler to work out what size the
operand was.
I guess the alternatives would be casting (when did C get its cast
operator?) or assigning the number to a pointer variable.
Tony.
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