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From: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@free-expression.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: SCM_PTR_LE ?
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:15:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0208011211330C.05101@locke.free-expression.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lj4ree5y7l.fsf@burns.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>

On Thursday 01 August 2002 11:40, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> same array or a single block returned from malloc.  A consequence
> would be that you can not reliably test whether a pointer does point
> into some object, since the results are not defined when it points
> outside.  For example, is the following guaranteed to print "sane"?
> 
>     char block1[100];
>     char block2[100];
> 
>     char *ptr = block1 + 50;
> 
>     if (ptr >= block2 && ptr < block2+100)
>       printf ("sane\n");
>     else
>       printf ("insane\n");
> 
> I don't know.    
    That would be not, as it prints insane on my athlon-based
linux system.  Now if you tried block2 + 150, or block1 - 50,
we might have an interesting question.

Lynn

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-08-01 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-27 18:50 SCM_PTR_LE ? Han-Wen
2002-07-30 17:00 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-30 22:24   ` Han-Wen
2002-08-01 16:40     ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-01 17:09       ` Mr. Peter Ivanyi
2002-08-01 17:15       ` Lynn Winebarger [this message]
2002-08-01 20:08         ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-01 17:16       ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-08-01 17:24         ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-08-01 20:09         ` Marius Vollmer

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