🚀 go-pugleaf

>    You can assume that all pointers have the same format, regardless of
>    the type they point to, and that this is really an integer.  There are
>    some weird machines where this isn't true, but they aren't important;
>    don't waste time catering to them.  Besides, eventually we will put
>    function prototypes into all GNU programs, and that will probably make
>    your program work even on weird machines.

Is this a joke?  And I suppose we can assume all machines are big-endian, too,
and it's okay to copy strings by casting them to ints and using assignments?

Thanks, GNU, for today's biggest laugh, from a bunch of people who have ported
tons of code to the DEC Alpha (obviously an unimportant machine).

[Update: This is no longer quite as bad, it now says only to assume pointers
 are integers in things like LISP interpreters.  The current standards have
 one offensively stupid suggestion I can detect, but are otherwise nearly
 sane, largely because of the ongoing debate, in gnu.misc.discuss. -mod]

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