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

[Jie Zhang <zhangjie at magima dot com dot cn>]

Hi Rup,

> >   n.0 = (unsigned int)n;
> >   T.1 = n.0 * 4;
>
>
> Compute the byte-offset for the index as an unsigned integer.
>
>
> Performing the index computation as unsigned looks wrong to me. I suspect
> this because sizeof(int) is unsigned, but isn't a[-1] acceptable? I can't
> navigate the C standard well enough to see what it says.

I also think we should not compute the index as unsigned. I think C99 
accepts a[-1].


cheers
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Jie