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From: "N.M. Maclaren" <nmm1@cam.ac.uk>
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On Jun 11 2009, Van Snyder wrote:
>
>> >But that is not a C address, is it? It is a value, for sure.
>> 
>> God alone knows.  Despite 1.3.19 in Fortran, there is no well-defined
>> meaning of 'address' in C.
>
>That's why the C standard is a normative reference that is
>"indispensable for the application of this part of ISO/IEC 1539"

Ah!  I didn't know that WG5 felt irreverent enough to include satire
in the standard.


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Nick Maclaren,
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