Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/10/08/10:13:11
>>>>> "FR" == Frederick W Reimer <fwreimer AT crl DOT com> writes:
FR> As far as Unix programs and such are concerned, what's wrong with
FR> assuming that the size of an int is the same as the size of a pointer?
FR> This is almost a given in the C programming world, or at least is should
FR> be.
NO NO NO NO NO
You should try to port some software to DEC-ALPHA workstations, where
integers are 32 bits and pointers are 64 bits. Lots of programmers
assume that you need not declare strlen, because the compiler assumes
the unspecified argument to be an int which has (on most systems) the
same size as a pointer.
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