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Re: US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#162289
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Paul Schlie <schlie at comcast dot net>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:09:29 +0200
- Subject: Re: US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#162289
- References: <C428BE80.13377%schlie@comcast.net> <48034861.5050500@adacore.com>
Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> writes:
> Alex Stepanov told me once that he preferred Ada to C, because Ada
> has proper pointer arithmetic (via the type Integer_Address) which
> is defined to work in Ada in the manner that Paul mistakenly expects
> for C. Integer_Address would be a bit of a pain to implement on
> a 286 :-)
In C it is called uintptr_t.
Andreas.
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