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From: ark@rabbit.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: read(fd, &y, sizeof(y)) portability
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Date: Sun, 4-Mar-84 19:08:34 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  4 19:08:34 1984
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You are better off writing:

	read (fd, (char *) &y, sizeof (y))

It makes a difference on some machines.