Re: A curiosity...

[Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>]

Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
> Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Except that there's no guarantee in C that converting an int to void*
>> and back again will yield the original int value.
>
> There's a guarantee in your implementation's documentation.

Maybe.  The result of converting an integer to a pointer type, or vice
versa, is implementation-defined, which means the implementation must
document it.  It's not at all clear what level of detail is required,
but you can *probably* determine whether it works the way you want.
Which it might not.

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