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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Does ANSI insist this is legal?
Message-ID: <12271@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 2 Mar 90 21:06:16 GMT
References: <25EB8750.5286@paris.ics.uci.edu> <12570048@hpclwjm.HP.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <12570048@hpclwjm.HP.COM> walter@hpclwjm.HP.COM (Walter Murray) writes:
>Assuming a char can't hold a pointer, the behavior of this code is undefined.
>May a conforming implementation produce an error at compile time?

You may recall that we had this debate several months ago, using a different
code example, with me on one side of the issue and most other X3J11 members
who participated in the discussion on the other.  I think it is an issue that
needs an official interpretation ruling.