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From: saswss@hotellng.unx.sas.com (Warren Sarle)
Subject: Re: C pointers and GC (Re: Lisp is not an interpreted language)
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Those of you who are intelligent enough to be able to program in C or
Lisp should also be capable of looking at the "Newsgroups" line and
noting that this thread and several related ones should NOT be
cross-posted to comp.ai,comp.ai.genetic,comp.ai.neural-nets, and
comp.ai.philosophy.

In article <wsyg21yu8bw.fsf_-_@best.com>, Thomas Breuel <tmb@intentionally.blank> writes:
|> smryan@netcom.com (!@?*$%) writes:
|> > (Rememberring, of course, that C and C++, unlike Lisp, permit arbitrary
|> > transformations on pointer values which a collector can apparently, always
|> > transform back into a valid pointer.)
|> 
|> Read the ANSI C spec: C does not permit "arbitrary transformations on
|> pointer values". ...

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