C Floating point arithmetic

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In article <322 at brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn at brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) writes:
>> K+R says you can convert any pointer to an int and back again without
>> wrecking it.
>
>That is NOT what it says.

Mea culpa.  K+R A.14.4 (p.210) para. 2 says "Whether an int or a long is
required is machine dependent."  I was remembering the next paragraph, which
says that an "integer" converted from a pointer can be converted back to
the same pointer.

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