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From: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Retraction of question about casts and pointers
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Date: Wed, 23-Nov-83 10:44:09 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 23 10:44:09 1983
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Doesn't lint complain about ANY cast under the -c option except of
conversions between the arithmetic types (int, char, float and their
short, unsigned and/or long variants)?
    My opinion is that casts in initializers are as valid as anywhere
in expressions; the only restrictions on initializers is that they be
computable at load time (given a conventional loader, that is!).

While I'm on the subject:
I would love to have a -p option which checked portability to V7
Unix (8 char identifiers, 7 char externals).  I don't believe in
6-characters one-case externals; but I do believe in PDP-11's
(We run 4.2 BSD.)