pointer <-> integer round-up

[Fergus Henderson]

On 19-Mar-2002, Tom Lord <lord@emf.net> wrote:
> 
> Conversions from integer to pointer types are legal in some
> circumstances, but not as an implicit (castless) conversion, as in an
> assignment to an integer variable.  I thought they were legal in that
> case (not wise to use, certainly worthy of a warning, but legal).
> That's the traditional behavior of C.  It's what GCC compiles.  I'd
> bet we can find old code that relies on that implicit conversion.  But
> according to the strictest reading of the standard, GCC _could_ treat
> such an assignment as an error and refuse to compile the program.  My
> mistake.

This is not just a theoretical issue; lcc, for example, reports an
error for such assignments.  There is no way to change this error
to a mere warning.  The only way to compile programs containing such
assignments with lcc is to insert an appropriate cast.

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