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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re: type cast in initializer
Message-ID: <691@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 18:30:45 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.691
Posted: Thu Feb  6 18:30:45 1986
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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.

But, the = forces the same type coercion as the type cast.
Writing the cast explicitly is good style, however.
I don't see why the fellow wants to do what he's doing
quite apart from the question of how to express it..