Different multiply operator for pointers and integers

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Thu Dec 16 18:14:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:45:18PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>   Doesn't that assume that the registers that hold pointers can _only_ be
> used for pointers and not for integers?

If that's true, there's absolutely no hope of porting gcc at all.
We're altogether too free with pointer/integer equivalence.


r~



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