Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!gwyn@BRL.ARPA From: gwyn@BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Context Variables Message-ID: <476@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 08:01:36 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.476 Posted: Tue Dec 10 08:01:36 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 11-Dec-85 21:53:51 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 4 Actually, K&R promises that a long will be large enough to hold a (char *) without loss of information. I agree that this is a mistake, and I believe that X3J11 no longer promises this (I'm still reviewing the last draft).