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The array is created using 'new B[...]'. The SPARCompiler stores
additional information when creating an array. This is neccessary
in C++ to be able to call the destructor for all elements of the
array on 'delete []'. At least it needs to store the number of elements
of the array and the size of an individual element.
( class X {};
  class Y : public X {};

  y = new Y[..];
  delete [] (X*)y;  // sizeof(X) may be unequal to sizeof(Y);
)

So the SPARCompiler also stores the information, which destructor to invoke!
You can cast the pointer obtained from 'new B[...]' as often as you want
and you can write code into your array as much as you want,
the compiler uses the additional information stored with 'new B [...]'
to destruct the array. And this information says: IT IS A 'B' ARRAY!

The code you wrote is simply not portable.



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