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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:28:00 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 go output faults on 9vx with rfork
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> unfortunately, ulong is still used where uintptr should be.  it's fairly
> rampant.

"Because it descended from typeless languages, C has traditionally
been rather permissive in allowing dubious mixtures of various types;
the most flagrant violations of good practice involved the confusion
of pointers and integers."
-- Johnson & Ritchie: 'Portability of C Programs and the UNIX System'
   (BSTJ Jul-Aug 1978)