Must casting destroy lvalueness?
Chris Torek
chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Wed Oct 29 08:39:40 AEST 1986
>In article <657 at dg_rtp.UUCP> throopw at dg_rtp.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:
>> (*((some_type **)&p))++
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.
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