Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:49:05 -0800 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7 |
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On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:21:44PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > For example you don't know if there's another object that will cast > the int pointer back to char pointer before dereferencing. That would > get a defined runtime behaviour on all archs.
No. The representation of "int*" and "char*" needn't be the same. And isn't on old word addressed machines.
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