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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: When is a cast not a cast?
Message-ID: <10200@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 4 May 89 03:54:42 GMT
References: <2747@buengc.BU.EDU> <10191@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2759@buengc.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2759@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
-In article <10191@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
->In article <2747@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
->>10 	p = (c + (char *) i);  /* More trouble than it's worth... */
->Addition of pointers is a meaningless operation.
-Philosophically, it's rubbish.  According to the language def., it's pure
-science.

No, it's rubbish in any case.

-... but I find it more than
-unsettling that a pointer offset can not be expressed and manipulated
-directly in the pointer type.  At least, not without first multiplying or
-dividing by the proper sizeof(*type).

You're making things much harder than they really are.

	p = c + i;