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Date:      Sat, 9 Jun 2001 15:59:17 -0500
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
To:        Damien Neil <neild@misago.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: free() and const warnings
Message-ID:  <20010609155917.A2954@hellblazer.nectar.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010609004940.B50335@misago.org>; from neild@misago.org on Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 12:49:40AM -0700
References:  <20010607195634.I724@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <XFMail.010607102051.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20010607124729.B4940@shade.nectar.com> <20010609004940.B50335@misago.org>

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On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 12:49:40AM -0700, Damien Neil wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:47:30PM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> > C99 says of uintptr_t only that for any valid pointer p, the following
> > is true:
> > 
> >     (void *)(uintptr_t)p == (void *)p
> > 
> > Likewise for  intptr_t.  I read  that as  covering both code  and data
> > pointers.
> 
> C89, at least, does not guarantee that you can convert between code
> and data pointers.  I believe the same holds for C99.

Agreed.  The  original point was  whether or  not a uintptr_t  was big
enough for both types of pointers.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org

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