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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6
Date: 6 Dec 1996 01:22:53 -0000
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In article <5869r2$175$1@asgard.sprintlink.co.za>,
	philips@asiatech.co.za (philip Shearer) writes:
: I don't see why anyone needs to store pointers as ints or longs
: store the them as pointers.

How do you align a pointer if you can't cast it to some kind of number ?

-- 
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
      <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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