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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Casting pointers
Keywords: Pointers, casting
Message-ID: <13980@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 1 Oct 90 02:12:39 GMT
References: <1990Sep29.201144.23113@maths.tcd.ie>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Sep29.201144.23113@maths.tcd.ie> tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes:
>when temporarily 'borrowing' od from Unix to Mac.

Assuming you're talking about AT&T's proprietary source code,
that is not "borrowing", it's theft.

>char *buf = "abc";
>  int *n = (int*) buf;
>Should this always work?

Of course not.  You may cast pointers to objects with more stringent
alignment requirements to pointers to objects having less stringent
or the same alignment requirements, not the other way around.