Must casting destroy lvalueness?

[John Sambrook]

In article <144 at cartan.Berkeley.EDU> desj at brahms (David desJardins) writes:
>In article <4038 at umcp-cs.UUCP> chris at umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>>In article <55 at cartan.Berkeley.EDU> desj at brahms (David desJardins) writes:
>>>... the point is that casts of pointers *don't* convert.
>>
>>Yes they do, and Wayne Throop has to know it:  His machine does
>>indeed convert.  `char *' is 48 bits; `int *' is 32 bits.  DG
>>machines use word pointers, except when dealing with bytes.
>
>   My apologies; I misspoke.  What I meant to say is that casts of pointers
>refer to the same physical locations, although the representations of pointers
>of different types may be different.
>
>   -- David desJardins

Just a small correction.  On the MV series both types of pointers are
32 bits.  It is also true that character pointers have a different 
format than pointers to other types.  Casting from one type to the other
on the MV series requires a conversion.

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