On Sun, 9 Jun 2013 13:45:52 -0700, John McCall said:

>Playing with the bit-representation of Objective-C pointers specifically
>is ill-advised because the implementation reserves the right to play its
>own games with object pointers (such as the optimized representation of
>integer values when boxed as NSNumbers on 64-bit platforms), but
>nonetheless this behavior is inherited from C and cannot really be changed.

So wouldn't a warning (not error) from the compiler be desirable?

Cheers,

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Sean McBride, B. Eng                 [email protected]
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com 
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada



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