gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (05/16/91)
In article <wolfram.674309645@akela> wolfram@akela.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Wolfram Roesler) writes: >gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: >>>that the declaration char **ch; is equivalent to char *ch; >>No, they're not at all equivalent. They might not even have the same size. >His response to this was: > "I claim there are no machines like this" >What do you gurus say about this? I say that any fool can make arbitrary claims; they need not be given credence. >How about an example of a machine or OS where this is true? We've done that over and over in the C newsgroups. It is really trivial to imagine a reasonable implementation like that; just consider a word-addressable machine with a maximal address space.