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Re: Why convert to pointer type before added to a pointer

From: Jie Zhang <zhangjie at magima dot com dot cn>
To: Falk Hueffner <hueffner at informatik dot uni-tuebingen dot de>
Cc: Rupert Wood <me at rupey dot net>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:42:40 +0800
Subject: Re: Why convert to pointer type before added to a pointer
References: <E1BwelD-0005iV-0X@anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net> <4122BA8E.90709@magima.com.cn> <87wtzxggi2.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>

Falk Hueffner wrote:


Well, it doesn't matter as long as it's done at the same width as that
of pointers.

Then, why do we bother to cast index integer to unsigned? It does not conform to the standard, and maybe it will incur bugs in future.


cheers
--
Jie

References:
- RE: Why convert to pointer type before added to a pointer
  - From: Rupert Wood
- Re: Why convert to pointer type before added to a pointer
  - From: Jie Zhang
- Re: Why convert to pointer type before added to a pointer
  - From: Falk Hueffner

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