Whose code should we break? ( was Re: 64 bit C )

[Jay Maynard]

In article <65469 at brunix.UUCP> cgy at cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>But I want sizeof long == sizeof char *.  There are quite a few applications
>in which I find myself writing my own memory manager; I need some type
>in which I can flick the bits on my pointers, portably.

All the world is not a VAX.

Operating on pointers as though they had no meaning beyond their numeric
value is inherently nonportable, and if you do that, you deserve to lose.

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