Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!root From: root@cca.ucsf.edu (Computer Center) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Something's Broken: was ... Re: tgetent Summary: read before you post Keywords: tgetent,core dump,sco,xenix,large model Message-ID: <1305@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> Date: 11 Jul 88 21:52:50 GMT References: <54@libove.UUCP> <701@nod2sco> <3222@bigtex.uucp> <1033@ficc.UUCP> <19789@watmath.waterloo.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: Computer Center, UCSF Lines: 18 In article <19789@watmath.waterloo.edu>, rwwetmore@grand.waterloo.edu (Ross Wetmore) writes: > > The assumption that pointers and ints are of equal length is the > problem, no? This is a fundamental assumption of the 'C' language, > if not an explicit requirement. Please learn what you are talking about before posting. See K&R p. 210 A pointer may be converted to any of the integral types large enough to hold it. Whether an int or long is required is machine dependent. Thos Sumner (thos@cca.ucsf.edu) BITNET: thos@ucsfcca (The I.G.) (...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!thos) OS|2 -- an Operating System for puppets. #include