16 Oct
2011
16 Oct
'11
4:59 p.m.
On 16 Oct 2011 at 19:48, Toby Thain wrote:
Exactly. On DG Nova, inter alia, byte pointers and
word pointers have
a different representation.
...which must make for all sorts of fun on that and similar
architectures when void* pointers are used for nearly everything...
I dislike void* as a pointer type and it infests nearly everything
and conveys no information other than "this is a pointer...to
something". Too often it's used as a lazy dodge.
--Chuck