Casting Pointers

[jack at hp-dcde.UUCP]

Mr. Bloom states that you don't want casts (in this case), because casts
generate calls to routines that will perform type conversion rather than
inline code.

Not on our 68000 C compiler!  One can certainly consider architectures
where (char *) is represented differently than (long *), but on a 68000
they're both just a 32-bit (or 24-bit) address.

The ultimate solution is for each user to check the output
of his own compiler, but any compiler that generates code for this
type cast on a 68000 is pretty dubious.


						-Jack Applin
						(hplabs!hp-dcd!jack)