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From: robison@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Any GOOD reason for C's behaviour i
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Date: Wed, 23-Jul-86 21:08:00 EDT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU!robison    Jul 23 20:08:00 1986


Your compiler is broken according to K&R, section 2.7 (page 42): 

``In the construction

	(type-name) expression

the expression is converted to the named type by the conversion rules above.
The precise meaning of a cast is in fact as if expression were assigned to a
variable of the specified type, which is then used in place of the whole 
construction.''

Your two programs should behave identically.

Arch D. Robison
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign