Multiple Pointer Types on HPPA

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Wed Jun 30 15:43:00 GMT 1999


  In message < 376EC27A.71840051@dvv.org >you write:
  > What about an architecture where the size for all pointers is one and the
  > same, but conversions between pointers to char types and pointers to word
  > types are not trivial?
You're in trouble there too.

As far as gcc is concerned pointers are just a scalar type.  There is no
special meaning placed to them.  A conversion from one pointer type to
another is considered a no-op.

jeff




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