On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> I guess I have been reading too many of Chris Torek's treatises to
> comp.lang.c, but storing an integer in storage for pointers is
> unportable, a union is needed. it should work just fine on the OP's
> system, though.
The trap that I fell into was to treat "void *" as "a container that can
hold anything as long as you use suitable casts". This is just laziness
to avoid the additional coding that a union needs. I should probably
bite the bullet and tidy this up.
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