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   albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes:   
   > Running it reveals the address of y, or at least the 32 least   
   > significant bits.   
      
   Being able to find the addresses of memory objects is considered a   
   feature in C and it's used all the time in idiomatic C.  In retrospect,   
   other languages have usually-good ways to do without that feature, such   
   as references, access types, etc.  I think if you are writing an OS or   
   standalone embedded program in Ada though, it's not unusual to have some   
   low level parts of it in assembly language, that reach into the access   
   types and do stuff with the addresses.   
      
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