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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: increment casted void pointer  --  ANSI?
Message-ID: <15589@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 26 Mar 91 22:22:11 GMT
References: <4142@rwthinf.UUCP> <1991Mar8.165300.11692@zoo.toronto.edu> <288@nazgul.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <288@nazgul.UUCP> bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
-In article <1991Mar8.165300.11692@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
-/There is no way to say "pretend this variable has a different type" in C.
-/Casts are conversions, not "view this bit pattern differently" operators
-The usual to do a 'type paint', which is to change the type of an object
-without changing the bit pattern, is to:
-	*(newtype *)&(object)

A strictly conforming method is to use a union type.