Re: Casting Function Pointers

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sat, 25 May 1991 22:17

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In article <16259@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>I'm not aware of any changes between the final draft of K&R2 (first printing)
>and the official C standard that would make K&R2 less correct...

I know of at least one -- it's no longer promised that casting a pointer to
integer and back preserves its value if the integer is big enough -- and
there are probably a few more.
-- 
"We're thinking about upgrading from    | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Casting Function Pointers
Message-ID: <1991May25.221756.16182@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 25 May 1991 22:17:56 GMT
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