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Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 10:25:47 -0200
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, David Eberhard <toothpck AT xmission DOT com>
From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject: Re: problem with memory allocation (I think)
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At 11:00 08/01/98 +0200, 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.
>

Eli where did you get evidence for this affirmation? C language definition
says "the compiler should issue a warning, but is not illegal" to do such an
assignement. I'm don't have the ANSI specs at hand now to quote the section
and verse, but this is the idea.

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