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   On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:28:06 +0100   
   John Aldridge  wrote:   
      
   > In article <20240829191334.570e88c7507598ffe5b28d87@eircom.net>,   
   > steveo@eircom.net says...   
   > > > > 	Portable code should only rely on the standards not   
   > > > > implementations, some very weird possibilities are legal within the   
   > > > > standard.   
   > > >   
   > > > Heh, yes. I worked for several years on a machine where a null   
   > > > pointer wasn't all bits zero, and where char* was a different size to   
   > > > any other pointer.   
   > >   
   > > 	That rings vague bells, what was it ?   
   >   
   > Prime. It was word, not byte, addressed, so a char* had to be bigger.   
      
   	Thank you, that was indeed the bell it rang. I only heard about it,   
   never met it.   
      
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