long identifiers

[Bill Poser]

In article <I3O6UI7 at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> >...and which given its nature (it requires graphics facilities,
>> >a mouse, lots of memory, etc.) is extremely unlikely to be ported
>> >to old machines.
>
>IBM PS/2 Model 30 running Windows 286? Sizeof(char *) == 4, sizeof(int) == 2.
>
>Come again?

I think that Peter has misread the message of mine that he quotes.
I said that assuming that one could store a pointer in an int
was the sort of machine dependency that SHOULD be assiduously
avoided.