Casting Function Pointers

Henry Spencer henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Tue May 28 01:35:20 AEST 1991


In article <16271 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>I know of at least one -- it's no longer promised that casting a pointer to
>>integer and back preserves its value if the integer is big enough...
>
>...Was that really changed during the public review process?  I don't
>have the old drafts to look it up in.

I don't have them handy either.  I remember noticing that the "you can do
this" promise had disappeared, but I have no idea when it was.

Probably something to do with the AS/400. :-)
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