On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 03:18:48 -0800, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.
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> On Feb 18, 2005, at 2:14 AM, Gabriel Sechan wrote:
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> > Ever learn assembly? I didn't truely understand pointers until I
> > worked in assembly for a while. Ever since, they've been second
> > nature. If you haven't, give it a try. Any assembly language will
> > do, it doesn't need to be x86.
>
> Actually, the older assembly languages with "indirect addressing" are
> better (I learned on 6809). Once you do that, the idea of pointer to a
> pointer to a something doesn't even slightly phase you.
This sounds like what some of my better students would tell me when I
was teaching EECS70 (assembly language programming and system
interfaces) at UCSD. "Now that I know about indirect addressing, I
finally understand pointers in C".
carl
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