Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!ntt From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Another pointer size problem Message-ID: <744@dciem.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 12:17:35 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.744 Posted: Mon Feb 27 12:17:35 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 27-Feb-84 13:14:33 EST References: <4102@ukc.UUCP>, <5705@mcvax.UUCP> Organization: NTT Systems Inc., Toronto, Canada Lines: 18 How often do YOU write read(fd, &y, sizeof(y)); in programs that are supposed to be portable? I for me prefer using the standard I/O library. ------------------------------------------------------- Doesn't the same thing arise with fread? Don't you need to say: fread ((char *)&y, sizeof y, nitems, stream); ...to be sure the compiler will pass the arguments correctly? Mark Brader [I haven't used any machines myself where this would matter.]