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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: <10318@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 25 May 89 16:28:24 GMT
References: <2747@buengc.BU.EDU> <6200006@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <6200006@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>What about:
>    q = NULL[i];  /* or even i[NULL] */
>    q = q[1];

Please don't do these things even if your particular compiler happens
to let you get away with it.  There is no reason to expect these to
work and on many C implementations they will fail.  There are other,
portable ways to accomplish such operations.