Re: Converting between pointer types

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From: Clive D.W. Feather
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 05:13

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In article <43n718$ns@Radon.Stanford.EDU>,
Denizen of the Deep <becker@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> What is the status of my program if it attempts such a conversion,
> given that I know exactly how the compiler is generating code and I know
> it does exactly what I want?  Is it legal but just not portable, or is
> it not even technically a legal C program (since the behavior is
> undefined rather than implementation-defined)?

If there is a conforming implementation that will accept your program,
then it is a conforming program. Just not strictly conforming.

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Clive D.W. Feather                       | If you lie to the compiler,
clive@demon.net        (work, preferred) | it will get its revenge.
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Subject: Re: Converting between pointer types
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 05:13:40 GMT
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