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From: comeau@ditka.Chicago.COM (Greg Comeau)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: 64 bit architectures and C/C++
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Date: 8 May 91 18:14:13 GMT
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In article <312@nazgul.UUCP> bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
>char *p; signed char *ps; unsigned char *pu;
>p = pu;/* syntax error */ 	p = ps;	/* syntax error */
>It seems we [Zortech] are the only compiler that flags these as errors.

I'm quite sure we (Comeau C++) do too.

>A related example is: int i; short *ps; *ps = &i;

We'd flag this too (even if you left off the *! ;-}).

- Greg
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