Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!dual!lll-crg!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Compiler Error Checking and Error Messages - How much is too much? Message-ID: <1531@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 16:40:26 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.1531 Posted: Mon Sep 16 16:40:26 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 06:34:44 EDT References: <551@scc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 8 > I used a compiler once that made assignment of pointer > to an int a FATAL ERROR. Note that on this system both > pointers and ints were 32 bits. Perhaps it would have let you if you'd used a type cast? In any case, this is certainly nonportable usage. ANSI X3J11 (q.v.) attempts to define proper behavior in such cases.