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From: papowell@umn-cs.UUCP (Patrick Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: byte order: be reasonable - do it my way...
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Date: Sat, 17-Jan-87 21:11:50 EST
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In order to spare the innocent,  I will briefly note:

mumble proc(x)
	char *x;
	{ .... }


int i;
char c;
(void) proc(&c); <--O.K.
(void) proc(&i); <--SSSSSSSSSS BOOOOOO

Since when do you assume that a pointer to int has the same FORM
as a pointer to char?  Sigh...

I think that the originator of the idea has to work on a word based machine
for his sins.

Patrick ("Two days programming in FORTRAN IV on a IBM 7090 or
		50 lashes"  "I'll take the lashes!!!") Powell
-- 
Patrick Powell, Dept. Computer Science, 136 Lind Hall, 207 Church St. SE,
University of Minnesota,  Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612)625-3543/625-4002