pointer sizes

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <wolfram.674309645 at akela> wolfram at akela.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Wolfram Roesler) writes:
>gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>>that the declaration char **ch; is equivalent to char *ch;
>>No, they're not at all equivalent.  They might not even have the same size.
>His response to this was:
>	"I claim there are no machines like this"
>What do you gurus say about this?

I say that any fool can make arbitrary claims; they need not be given credence.

>How about an example of a machine or OS where this is true?

We've done that over and over in the C newsgroups.
It is really trivial to imagine a reasonable implementation like that;
just consider a word-addressable machine with a maximal address space.