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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: Failure of "long x(cp) char * cp; { return *((long *) cp); }" is a bug?
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Date: Sun, 29-Jun-86 15:07:18 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 29 15:07:18 1986
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> Isn't this really a compiler bug?  Doesn't the cast in the
> 		return *((long *) cp);
> give the compiler all the evidence it needs that it should, *on its own*,
> produce code that's the equivalent of the function call?

When you cast a pointer type to another pointer type,
you have stepped outside the bounds of the language.
The implementation is entitled to do as it pleases.