#What goes where?
18-Feb-88 10:02:26
Sb: #109734-#What goes where?
Fm: John Draper 76703,4322
To: Nick Sullivan/Transactor 76703,4353
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Depends on how you look at it. In C, adding 1 to a long pointer really
adds 4 to it to point at the next long. A BPTR is a pointer to long, in
that it points to the nth longword in memory, considering the longwords to
be the base unit. Looked at this way, a BPTR + 1 points to the next
longword when using, for example, assembler. That you have to convert
before actually using it is not really any different than the C cmpiler
converting when it increments a long pointer.