reading legacy floppy disks

[Scott Allen]

On Sun Sep 10,2006 04:09:09 AM John Macdonald wrote:
> But it is not consistant with the other rule about the
> size of an int - an int has to have enough bits to
> hold a pointer.

I don't believe that this statement is correct. A pointer can be 
converted to an "integral type", which can be an int, short int, or 
long int. Therefore, a plain "int" can be 8 bits even if a pointer 
requires 16 bits. On such a system the pointer could be held in a 
long int (assuming that on this system a long int is at least 16 
bits).


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