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From: hrp@cray.UUCP (Hal Peterson)
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Subject: Re: Re: type cast in initializer
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 13:53:51 EST
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> >	int	x = 0;
> >	char	*ptr = (char *) &x;
> 
>     In any case, I'm not sure why you'd want to do what your example does,
> since the cast here is a no-op.  

An int pointer does not necessarily have the same format as a char pointer.
Consider a word addressible machine on which the char's are packed into the
words.
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