8 bytes into 2 bytes fits ?

[David C Binderman]

Hello there,

// surely pointers can only be cast to types big enough to hold
// them. This code compiles ok on Linux/Alpha egcs-980824, even with
// -ansi -pedantic-errors

void
f( char * p)
{
	short s = (short) p;
}

Regards
David C Binderman MSc BSc	+44 1293 534847		dcb@pncl.co.uk