On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 12:49:40AM -0700, Damien Neil wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:47:30PM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> > C99 says of uintptr_t only that for any valid pointer p, the following
> > is true:
> > 
> >     (void *)(uintptr_t)p == (void *)p
> > 
> > Likewise for  intptr_t.  I read  that as  covering both code  and data
> > pointers.
> 
> C89, at least, does not guarantee that you can convert between code
> and data pointers.  I believe the same holds for C99.

Agreed.  The  original point was  whether or  not a uintptr_t  was big
enough for both types of pointers.

Cheers,
-- 
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