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From: desj@brahms (David desJardins)
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Subject: Re: Must casting destroy lvalueness?
Message-ID: <144@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Wed, 29-Oct-86 20:15:04 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 29 20:15:04 1986
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In article <4038@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>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.

   My apologies; I misspoke.  What I meant to say is that casts of pointers
refer to the same physical locations, although the representations of pointers
of different types may be different.

   -- David desJardins