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From: jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock)
Subject: Re: Zero-length structures and pointer comparisons
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Date: 30 Oct 92 00:17:06 GMT
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In article <1992Oct28.180039.20655@ucc.su.OZ.AU> maxtal@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (John MAX Skaller) writes:
|	Yes, but IF the language required a total ordering the
|compiler would be REQUIRED to normalise the pointers

Not true.  The compiler can be written in such a manner that no strictly
conforming program can legally result in a denormalized pointer.  Then
the compiler has no requirement to perform normalization -- because such
could only be a result of a not strictly conforming program.