Posted by Bob on 11/15/91 11:39

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:18:19 -0600, "Ken Maltby"
<kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> First you can't do it in C or Assembler, by accident.

I can see you have never programmed anything beyone hello.com.

>Any competent programmer would pay some attention to the errors
>that would be thrown up if you tried to do what you describe.

If the compiler or assembler threw up any errors to begin with.

>I know that to be true for MS C 5.0 and later.

Who said that the programmer is using MS C? I used C and MASM as
examples. It is more likely he is using VB.

>Then there is
>what the OS will allow in terms of data exchange.

Now I know you are full of it. The OS doesn't know squat about how you
index memory in a conventional block.

> But the
>most laughable thing is your idea that a larger precision format
>has any trouble accurately representing a lower precision number.

You are so full of it that it is laughable. C Compilers and Macro
Assemblers do not check pointer arithmetic.


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