Failure of \"long x(cp) char * cp; { return *((long *) cp); }\" is a bug?

[Rick Genter]

I don't think you can call that a compiler bug.  There are machines where 
returning the long pointed at by a character pointer makes no sense (e.g.,
PDP-10).  This is one of those cases that lint calls questionable, and
rightfully so.

In any case, you provided a cast, which implies that "you know what you are
doing."  It's no more a compiler bug for your example to trap than it is for

	main ()
	{
		* (long *) main = 0x12345678;
	}

to trap on any machine that protects text space from user writes.
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