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From: manning@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Evan Marshall Manning)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Function pointer casts in ANSI C
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.010812.27070@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 90 01:08:12 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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thorinn@skinfaxe.diku.dk (Lars Henrik Mathiesen) writes:
>My question is: Can a conforming compiler generate a warning for casts
>(and arguments) that will ``go wrong'' but not for those that work?

gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>A conforming implementation must produce at least one diagnostic for each
>translation unit that violates a syntax rule or constraint.  Diagnostics
>may be produced under other circumstances, but are not required.

My favorite lint (from Gimpel) would call those that work "non-portable",
and issue a more serious warning/error message for those that not will
work.

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