Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

[Richard Henderson]

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.


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