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Re: Avoiding "assignment from incompatible pointer type" warning
On Monday 21 October 2002 04:22, Claudio Bley wrote:
> >>>>> "Florian" == Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
>
> Florian> "Joshua Nye" <josh@boxcarmedia.com> writes:
> >>> > int *p;
> >>> > float g = 3.141592653589793238;
> >>> > p = (int *)&g;
> >>>
> >>> Is this code legal? I doubt it.
> >>
> >> What do you consider legal and why wouldn't it be?
>
> Florian> Casting a pointer from float to int can result in
> Florian> undefined behavior on some implementations.
>
> I can't see why. Can you elaborate on that? I mean, casting on the
> machine code level does just nothing - it's just "syntactic sugar" to
> convince the compiler to be quiet. I think casting from one pointer
> type to another does no harm at all. Am I wrong?
Hello,
I guess that today it doesn't matter. But what is, if the size of the pointers
differ? You should use 'void*' which can store any pointer.
Bye