From:	Mirek Prywata <nospam-mpry AT fuw DOT edu DOT pl>
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Subject:	Re: problem with memory allocation (I think)
Date:	Thu, 08 Jan 1998 13:44:14 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> Also, please note that it is usually a bad idea to put a long into a
> buffere which was malloc'ed for int's, like you do:
> 
>    long i;
>    unsigned int *buffer;
>    ...
>       buffer[i] = i;
> 
> This works in DJGPP, since int and long are both 32-bit, but on other
> architectures it will crash.

Isn't it true (at least in ANSI C), that the above code will be compiled
as:

 	buffer[i]= (unsigned int)i;
What you say means, that you should not write:
 
   double x=5;
   int *buffer;
........
	buffer[i]= x;

							Mirek

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