NULL pointer

Peter da Silva peter at graffiti.UUCP
Sun Nov 24 23:22:25 AEST 1985


> that "casts were not conversions", and that casting something to another
> type was the same as treating the old object's *bit-pattern* as if
> it was the new type with the same *bit-pattern*.  I don't know if it still
> claims this, as this was several years ago.

Last I heard (and I may be wrong: someone ripped off my K&R), (int)1.0 had
the value 1, not 0104000000000 or whatever.  The DECUS 'C' compiler also
had a broken floating point package, and I wonder if that's related.
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