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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Loopholes
Message-ID: <1933@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Jan-87 13:30:36 EST
Article-I.D.: mmintl.1933
Posted: Thu Jan  8 13:30:36 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Jan-87 09:36:57 EST
References: <2029@brl-adm.ARPA> <604@sdchema.sdchem.UUCP> <10849@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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In article <10849@sun.uucp> guy@gorodish.UUCP writes:
>I guess either not enough compilers are clever enough, so they want to use
>something like Mesa's "LOOPHOLE" operator, which merely reinterprets a
>bucket of bits.  It's interesting to note that C lacks this operator, while
>some languages with stronger type checking have it.

This isn't surprising.  Generally speaking, the stronger the type checking,
the more need there is for this kind of operator -- especially if you want
to do systems-type programming with it.

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108