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Re: Different multiply operator for pointers and integers
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: "'Richard Earnshaw'" <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "'Laura Tosoratto'" <Laura dot Tosoratto at roma1 dot infn dot it>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, "'Alessandro Lonardo'" <alessandro dot lonardo at roma1 dot infn dot it>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:13:51 -0800
- Subject: Re: Different multiply operator for pointers and integers
- References: <1103215228.28825.17.camel@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> <NUTMEG4Vc0IX16L1uQ0000007fe@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:45:18PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> Doesn't that assume that the registers that hold pointers can _only_ be
> used for pointers and not for integers?
If that's true, there's absolutely no hope of porting gcc at all.
We're altogether too free with pointer/integer equivalence.
r~