Failure of "long x(cp) char * cp; { return *((long *) cp); }" is a bug?

[Andrew Koenig]

> Isn't this really a compiler bug?  Doesn't the cast in the
> 		return *((long *) cp);
> give the compiler all the evidence it needs that it should, *on its own*,
> produce code that's the equivalent of the function call?

When you cast a pointer type to another pointer type,
you have stepped outside the bounds of the language.
The implementation is entitled to do as it pleases.