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Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers

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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 19:16
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Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> That trash went away a llooonnnggg time ago. Good to be reminded, though,
> I'd forgotten how truly horrible it used to be, even in C.

	Try writing the declaration for an array of far pointers to
functions returning near pointers to arrays of far pointers to integers.

	Now do it without typedefs :)

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