From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2003-10-22T00:31:42+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: Strict typing on large projects

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:44:22AM +0900, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Function calls are a form of cast, albeit a hidden one, and the trick
> you're using here isn't actually valid on all processors. You can do this
> with any function as long as the body and use of that function differs in
> type.

I think you misunderstood what I was saying.

The call to printf() is not important except to display the value of y;
my point was that assigning a void* to an int is perfectly valid C code
(though the value that the int will have after the assignment is
implementation-dependent).

Paul