Non-Portable pointer assignment?

[Tony L. Hansen]

< From: mcdaniel at adi.com (Tim McDaniel)
< I would have been quite content to have seen the types and sizes of
< 'xy' and 'x' differ.

C++ has taken this tack: the type of 'x' is char while the type of 'xy' is
int. It gives very nice properties when dealing with function and operator
overloading.

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