------- Additional Comments From froloff at os2 dot ru 2004-09-14 06:42 ------- Thanks to all for Your replays. Best regards Dmitry PS > &v[0] is always an unsigned char* pointing to contiguous memory. I know about that, as You can see from attached source (line 11) ;) -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17453