If your program printed the actual address it might be a lot
easier to figure out why it behaves the way it does. Something
like fprintf(stderr,"%08x\n",a); (assuming a 32 bit architecture,
on a 64 bit architecture you'd want 16 digits of the pointer).
Re: How much did the AS/400 influence the C standard? ... AS/400 is not the only architecture ever envisioned with tagged ... So the '400 isn't even the only IBM platform to ... It also seems to me that the proponents of relaxed rules for pointer... where illegal pointer subtraction give inconsistent results, ... (comp.std.c)
Re: Printf("%d") ... If the same pointer happened to be on the stack... in memory -- -13361016 is just a bit too random for that. ... memory addresses happens to be reserved in this architecture.... (comp.lang.c)
Re: De-referencing NULL ... there are indeed memory-mapped I/O registers in the ... some way incompatible with the architecture, which is a really weird thing. ... is not guaranteed to produce a null pointer.... I doubt that this would be a good idea on balance, though such a compiler... (comp.lang.c)
Re: Memory layout of structs ... of comp.os.linux.development.apps, Kasper Dupont wrote: ... memory, depending on the architecture of the CPU, so the two 16-bit ... integers will be placed differently on different platforms....endian differences in mind. ... (comp.os.linux.development.apps)
Re: De-referencing NULL ...(Richard Tobin)... produce the architecture address 0. ... If one needed a pointer of address 0 in such a case, ... you are trying to do something non-portable so whatever non-portable method the implementation documentation suggests will not reduce portability. ... (comp.lang.c)
