On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 08:06:00PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
> 
> >(no im not trying to start a flamewar, im just being an extremist for the
> >sake of argument, but i _do_ cherish and take advantage of interchangable
> >inetgers and pointers.. :) 
> 
> It's a cool toy, but it's not always a reasonable assumption; you can make a
> *VERY* nice environment for writing bulletproof code if you make sure that
> every "pointer" contains a substantial amount of additional data about what
> it points to.
> 
> Now, no one is likely to build a CPU that way, but it's a viable compiler
> setting.

Actually, the special PowerPC processors used in the AS/400 work that way.

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