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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
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Subject: Re: Compact data model in Turbo C
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Date: 14 Nov 88 14:30:31 GMT
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In-reply-to: moll@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU's message of 14 Nov 88 00:19:12 GMT

In article <10040@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> moll@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Rick Moll) writes:

     inbuf=(void*) (malloc(100));

Functions default to int.  You are casting a 16 bit int into a 32 bit pointer.

Never assume that sizeof(int) == sizeof(void *).

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