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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Must casting destroy lvalueness?
Message-ID: <4038@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Oct-86 17:39:40 EST
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.4038
Posted: Tue Oct 28 17:39:40 1986
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References: <4617@brl-smoke.ARPA> <657@dg_rtp.UUCP> <55@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Organization: University of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Sci.
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>In article <657@dg_rtp.UUCP> throopw@dg_rtp.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:
>>                (*((some_type **)&p))++

In article <55@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> desj@brahms (David desJardins) writes:
>... the point is that casts of pointers *don't* convert.

Yes they do, and Wayne Throop has to know it:  His machine does
indeed convert.  `char *' is 48 bits; `int *' is 32 bits.  DG
machines use word pointers, except when dealing with bytes.
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