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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: is (int (*)())NULL legal when NULL is (void *)0?
Message-ID: <14483@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 15 Nov 90 21:32:07 GMT
References: <13799@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <14463@smoke.brl.mil> <1990Nov15.204858.20696@Think.COM>
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In article <1990Nov15.204858.20696@Think.COM> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>I thought that the semantics of casting were equivalent to that of
>assignment to an object of the given type.

Nope, conversion and assignment have different rules.