Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

From: Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2001 - 12:49:05 EST


On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:21:44PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> For example you don't know if there's another object that will cast
> the int pointer back to char pointer before dereferencing. That would
> get a defined runtime behaviour on all archs.

No. The representation of "int*" and "char*" needn't be the same.
And isn't on old word addressed machines.

r~
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