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- From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: Aligning an arbitrary pointer?
- Message-ID: <14006@ksr.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 12:19:51 EDT
- References: <PDS.92Jul16111642@lemming.webo.dg.com> <1473f4INNq24@early-bird.think.com> <PDS.92Jul18154500@lemming.webo.dg.com> <14f6u9INNon7@early-bird.think.com>
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- barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
- >>I guess I still think that questions on how/if certain things can be
- >>done in conformant C are legitimate for comp.std.c, but I'm willing
- >>to be persuaded otherwise by a concensus... anyone?
-
- >i don't think it's worthwhile debating it, so I'll keep replying here.
-
- I think it is valuable to ask questions like that, but the problem is that
- too many of the answers are "well, if your machine allows you to cast pointers
- to integers with no change in bits, then you could do this"; if folks are
- going to post the answer on comp.std.c, it would be nice if they'd constrain
- the answers to what the Standard actually says is guaranteed...
-