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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pointer and integer addition
Message-ID: <15816@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 12 Apr 91 21:42:31 GMT
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In article <4205@rwthinf.UUCP> berg@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg) writes:
>No, not needed, the cast is implicit.

No, without the cast you have violated a constraint in the C standard
(section 3.3.16.1 in ANS X3.159-1989) and a standard-conforming
implementation is obliged to produce a diagnostic.