Possible egcs-980115 bug handling pointer casts

[Jason Merrill]

>>>>> John Wehle <john@feith.com> writes:

> I appreciate the information.  I don't mean to be thick, and I realize
> this is getting off of the egcs-bugs topic, however a couple of last
> questions:

>   1) What are you quoting from?  I couldn't find the quote in the back
>      of my ANSI C K&R, or in my copy of ANSI X3.159-1989.  Keep in mind
>      that I talking C here, not C++.

Ah.  I was talking C++.  C may not have the same restrictions.

>   3) The quote says that the behavior of accessing the stored value of an
>      object through an lvalue of a char or unsigned char type is defined.
>      More specifically does that mean:

>        int a;
>        ...
>        *(char *)&a = ...

>      is defined, even though

>        int a;
>        ...
>        *(short *)&a = ...

>      isn't?

Yes.

Jason