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In article <21407.2AA8073F@puddle.fidonet.org> Peter.Froehlich@p100.f71.n246.z2.fidonet.org (Peter Froehlich) writes:
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>Why  should I want to convert a POINTER TO INTEGER into a POINTER
>TO  CHAR  anyway?  A well-designed application has (IMHO) no need
>for doing this...
>
>By(T)e...
>         Peter...
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A well designed application might never need to do that, I agree. However,
Modula-2 is also a *systems* programming language!

If I am programming a device that is block mapped, it might be efficient to
handle my memory 32 bits (integer)) at a time. However, if I need to do
other operations on that memory, it might be more efficient to use 8 bits at
a time. You can see that a simple pointer conversion will allow me to do
both.


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