On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > then two's complement arithmetic will give the right result > even if the discarded bits differ.
Clarification: Two's complement isn't the only way this could be done, but it is the most likely. So, in theory, there are several possible causes of disaster, but in practice, on any IBM PC compatible architecture, casting a pointer to an integer will usually take the lowest N bits, and two's complement arithmetic will be used, and the environment is unlikely to hit 4GB in size, so the program will "happen to work" in >99.999% of cases. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
