In <53369a68.4060...@t-online.de>, on 03/29/2014
   at 11:03 AM, Bernd Oppolzer <bernd.oppol...@t-online.de> said:

>PL/1, BTW, does other strange things using descriptors, 

FSVO strange. PL/I supports call by reference, and the
locator/descriptor is simply the mechanism used by current
implementations, not something that your PL/I code deals with
explicitly. From my perspective, it's C that is strange.
 
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