From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
Message-Id: <199512191806.SAA09553@cadair.elsevier.co.uk>
Subject: Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "problems compiling on Alpha OSF1" on OSF/1
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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 18:06:04 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <199512191610.LAA25707@volterra.ai.mit.edu> from "Robert S. Thau"
 at Dec 19, 95 11:10:23 am
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In reply to Robert S. Thau who said
> 
>   I thing the standard says
>   something like, casting a pointer to an int is ok *if* the int is large
>   enough and casting back from an int will give you the original pointer
>   if the int was big enough in the first place.
> 
> But that's not what's going on in the code you quoted, which casts a
> *small* integer *to a pointer and back* --- the assumption here is that
> a pointer has enough bits to represent an int.  There may be machines
> which violate this assumption, but if so, they'll have a very hard time
> running X (Xt parameter blocks have this sort of thing all over the
> place).  Sheesh.

I've never browsed X sources so what you say may be correct, that
doesn't make the code any less wrong. There's lots of bad C out there.

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