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From: aaw@pyuxss.UUCP (Aaron Werman)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: read(fd,&y,sizeof y)
Message-ID: <302@pyuxss.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Mar-84 11:11:18 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 28 11:11:18 1984
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<set -nt>

why not put together a suite of macros like:

	#define	Read(fd, charP, charCount) \
		( (int) read((file *)fd, (char *)charP, (int) charCount) )

	#define Ldtseek(lp) ( (int) ldseek( (LDFILE *) ld) )

or alternatively you could recode all routines in your system to accept 
only full words (passed as "char *" to be known heretoafter as the
"universal type"). Each system routine would thus merely have to cast
the type in statements, like

        typedef char * WORD;
        WORD strlen(s) WORD s;{
        WORD p = s;  
         while (*p++); 
         return (WORD) (p - s  -  1);}  

-but BCPL did it first, and saved time on casts.
			{harpo,houxm,ihnp4}!pyuxss!aaw
:-)			Aaron Werman