Andrew Haley wrote: > > Prove me wrong with a specific ISO C specification clause, if you > > claim otherwise. > > I spent a long time working on and supporting gcc, and this is the > rule I've had to refer people to more times than any other. It's > amazing how many programmers don't know the specfication.
You guys are going off into the weeds. All that's required from C for the byte[] strategy to work is that this works: void *ptr; char *buf; ptr = <any valid pointer value> buf = malloc(sizeof(ptr)); memcpy(buf, &ptr, sizeof(ptr)); ... then sometime later ... memcpy(&ptr, buf, sizeof(ptr)); <continue using the fully restored ptr> I'm not a specophile but I would guess that C does at least guarantee this. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * CTO, Awarix * http://www.awarix.com _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
