finding strict aliasing problems

[Andreas Schwab]

Brad Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu> writes:

|> int
|> main()
|> {
|>   long int x = (long int) malloc (sizeof(int)+sizeof(double));

This does not work.  long is not required to be able to hold all
significant bits of a pointer.  Use void * instead, or if you absolutely
want to use an integer type, use [u]intptr_t.

Andreas.

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