Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Casting Function Pointers
Message-ID: <1991May27.153520.4547@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 May 1991 15:35:20 GMT
References: <1991May24.005025.7714@tkou02.enet.dec.com> <16259@smoke.brl.mil> <1991May25.221756.16182@zoo.toronto.edu> <16271@smoke.brl.mil>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <16271@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>I know of at least one -- it's no longer promised that casting a pointer to
>>integer and back preserves its value if the integer is big enough...
>
>...Was that really changed during the public review process?  I don't
>have the old drafts to look it up in.

I don't have them handy either.  I remember noticing that the "you can do
this" promise had disappeared, but I have no idea when it was.

Probably something to do with the AS/400. :-)
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