From: utzoo!decvax!cca!dan@Bbn-Unix@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Information on Unix/Vax peculiarities
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4750
Posted: Thu Dec  9 00:58:04 1982
Received: Fri Dec 10 06:57:10 1982

From: Dan Franklin <dan@Bbn-Unix>
Date:  3 Dec 1982 14:56:38 EST (Friday)
Why do you want to be able to cast *anything* to int? I've
written several good-sized portable programs (for PDP-11s,
VAXs, and C70s) without feeling a real need to do this.
It certainly isn't portable, since an arbitrary architecture
might well make it more efficient to choose ints to be smaller
than pointers.