Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!necntc!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Help me cast this!
Message-ID: <3989@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 13 May 88 18:48:30 GMT
References: <294@fedeva.UUCP> <7822@brl-smoke.ARPA> <3802@diku.dk> <1988May6.165221.536@utzoo.uucp> <3817@diku.dk>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <3817@diku.dk> thorinn@diku.dk (Lars Henrik Mathiesen) writes:
>The next problem is with compiler writers who insist on warning about
>[possible alignment problems] on compilation.  They will have to put in
>support for /*MAXALIGN*/...  Or use a #pragma.  Or their users will have to
>live with the warnings (most probable?).

If they're going to add the warning message, they'd better make damn sure that
"int *ip = (int *)malloc(sizeof(int));", which is perfectly valid, not produce
the warning.  "Live with the warnings" is unacceptable.

If it's true that #pragma is not allowed to change the semantics of a program,
then this may be an excellent example of what it *is* good for.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint