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From: shimoda@rmi.UUCP (Markus Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga programmer's hint $14
Message-ID: <905@rmi.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 88 11:12:28 GMT
References: <8803032106.AA06910@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: shimoda@rmi.UUCP (Markus Schmidt)
Organization: RMI Net, Aachen, W.Germany
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Posted: Mon Mar  7 12:12:28 1988

In article <8803032106.AA06910@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
: 
: 	(anycast)variable = variable;		NOT LEGAL
: 	variable = &(anycast)variable;		NOT LEGAL
: 
: 	variable = (somecasts)&variable;	LEGAL
: 
: 	char c = *(char *)&bar;			LEGAL. (USEFUL?)
: 
Yeah, useful in some cases, but can be also dangerous if you
hit odd addresses for ints and longs.
So  a       char foo[4]= {\{1, 2, 3, 4};
           
            b= *(int *)foo+1;

may give you (and gave me) the guru!

Cu 
Markus
(shimoda@rmi.uucp)