Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!olivea!decwrl!infopiz!lupine!rfg
From: rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Subject: Re: Conversion to |void*| and back: LEGAL
Keywords: Sun, C++
Message-ID: <3453@lupine.NCD.COM>
Date: 23 Jan 91 09:24:34 GMT
References: <278A3278.1241@tct.uucp> <70023@microsoft.UUCP> <27975414.50A8@tct.uucp>
Organization: Network Computing Devices, Inc., Mt. View, CA
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In article <27975414.50A8@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>Okay, here's another line of argument:
>
>ANSI C guarantees that any object pointer may be converted to |void *|
>and back, and that the result will be equal to the original pointer.
>The "Differences from ANSI C" section of the ARM (18.2) does not
>rescind that guarantee.  Therefore, it must still hold in C++.

That's a bad assumption.  I have already noted other ommisions from
the list in 18.2.  It is not a complete list.


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