Re: whats wrong with analysizing pointers this way ?

> Where "pointer" does not only mean, that such variables contain
> addresses, that's just a convention. You also must open the can of
> worms, by allowing access to memory locations, using the *values* stored
> in pointer variables, and by introducing pointer arithmetic, so that
> references can end up in some variable near the variable pointed to, or
> in unallocated memory.


That additional functionality depends, of course, on the language those
pointers are used in. Fortran, for instance, has pointers that just don't
allow such things to be done; thus, the chance of worm-holes occuring is
quite low - actually, if you only write standard-conforming programs, there
are none.


Jan

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