Clarification anyone? -- was Re: Linux and aliasing?

[Ross Smith]

mark@codesourcery.com wrote:
> 
> The exceptions are that you may access *anything*
> though a pointer of type `char*',

I thought it was unsigned char*? I don't think signed types are required
to have a one-to-one correspondence between valid values and all
possible bit patterns (so converting an arbitrary pointer to char* and
dereferencing might trigger a trap representation). (But I don't have a
copy of the C standard on hand, and I couldn't find anything relevant in
the C++ standard.)

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