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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: swap(x,y)
Message-ID: <10897@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 31 Aug 89 22:50:52 GMT
References: <MYwDEFy00WB842JEUx@andrew.cmu.edu> <8350@boring.cwi.nl> <14479@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1545@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1545@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>... so that (use int)x means treat x as type int no matter what it was,

If it wasn't represented with the same number of bits as an int, what
could this possibly mean?  If you're going to invent something, make
sure that it is sufficiently useful first.

>This is another example of keeping the tools from the programmer.

No, this is another example of not knowing how to use the tools that are
already provided.