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- From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
- Subject: Re: pointer comparisons
- Message-ID: <9300300.29980@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1992Dec27.050118.1628@lpi.liant.com> <1992Dec30.184614.5551@microsoft.com> <1992Dec31.170223.21637@lpi.liant.com> <1993Jan1.155241.28217@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 13:35:25 GMT
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- maxtal@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (John MAX Skaller) writes:
-
- >pkt@lpi.liant.com (Scott Turner) writes:
- >> Does it govern base class subobjects? As I understand it,
- >> base class subobjects are objects, and hence are covered.
- >
- > One consequence: abstract objects can exist.
- >
- > Corollary: such objects have states not accessible via
- > the contiguous storage allocated for them.
- > (via virtual function calls)
-
- As I noted in a previous article, I don't agree with Scott Turners belief
- that base class subobjects are objects. To me, these are absurd
- consequences, and thus I conclude that the assumption used in deriving them
- must be flawed.
-
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