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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: gcc and NULL function pointers.
Message-ID: <16539@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 26 Jun 91 18:35:14 GMT
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In article <1991Jun26.053508.3634@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> djimenez@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Daniel Jimenez) writes:
>malloc would return a value of one size which would be a valid character
>pointer, but the wrong size for an integer pointer.

That's okay; the conversion to int* takes care of that.

>I've never heard of machines like that.  Could someone give an example?

Check the comp.lang.c Frequently-Asked Questions posting.  Essentially
any word-oriented machine will be like that.