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Re:The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (2011) by acchow on Friday April 11, 2014 @05:12PM (#7575670)
I love this solution, but it probably would have made the move from 32-bit to 64-bit harder.
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Re:The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (2011) by TheSoftwareGuy on Friday April 11, 2014 @10:18PM (#7576697)
it should hve made it easier actually, because with pointers you are usually just doing addition subtraction, and everything should be independent of the acutal value of the pointer.
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