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From: jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock)
Subject: Re: Zero-length structures and pointer comparisons
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Date: 03 Dec 92 19:58:54 GMT
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In article <1992Dec2.111003.23102@jyu.fi> sakkinen@jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) writes:
|On the other hands, such little irregularities in the semantics of the language
|in order to allow for the quirks of some rudimentary processors and operating systems,
|increase its difficulty.  Who uses 8086s any more?

If I remember right, last time I researched this  there was something
like 50,000,000 - 100,000,000 PCs worldwide, most of which are used in
8086 mode most of the time.  Further, there are several hundred thousand
C++ compilers sold for the PC.  

The ignorance of this audience is showing.