On 18 January 2015 at 04:29, Bernd Oppolzer <[email protected]> wrote: > What do you think about this? For the existing PL/1 code base, for example, > it would be a big change if all pointers would be 8 bytes long ... I don't > see this happen in the near future.
In the PL/I Checkout compiler, pointers were (iirc) 128 bits, and carried various baggage not defined to the language, but useful in debugging. Of course no one used the Checker in production, but certainly in most cases the PL/I code should not be aware of the size of a pointer. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
