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From: ken@rochester.arpa (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Pointer problem ?
Message-ID: <777@sol.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 25-Jul-87 05:29:43 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 25 05:29:43 1987
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Reply-To: ken@rochester.UUCP (Ken Yap)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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Nobody has pointed out that the declaration

type
	p1 = ^p1;

introduces a type which can have nothing done to it except being
assigned nil and compared with nil. It is this "loop" which may the
cause of the compiler bug.

	Ken