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Re: mips address+symbol issue.


Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> writes:

> Remember that a[i] is just syntactic sugar for *(a+i).

Actually it is (*((a)+(i))).

> This means that the expression a[i-2000000000L] is the same as
> *(a+i-2000000000L).

(*((a)+(i-2000000000L)))

> With i==2000000000L, this becomes *(a+2000000000L-2000000000L)

(*((a)+(2000000000L-2000000000L)))

> which is the same as *((a+2000000000L)-2000000000L).

(*((a)+(0)))

All expressions are perfectly valid.

Andreas.

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