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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Should I convert FORTRAN code to C?
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Date: 2 Jul 88 21:55:32 GMT
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Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
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>Wrong.  A C cast operator ALWAYS behaves as if an assignment to
>an unnamed temporary variable is performed.  All this talk about
>"modes" is incorrect.

Some people use the word "mode" where others use "type". Don't be picky.

I have seen the error of my ways!  I now see that similarity of casting
(int)(1.2) to (struct a*)(struct-b*-value). Obviously truncating an floating
point number is the same as accessing the identical bit pattern as two
distinct structs. I now understand why every compiler and programmer agrees
to meaning of (unsigned)((short)(-1)).