Re: A curiosity...

[Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>]

Martin Krischik wrote:
> The real problem is that most C programmers don't know that.

The semantics of conversion between pointer and integer are
defined by the implementation. There's no law that says that
C programs must be written to be portable. It's acceptable
to use implementation-specific behavior and knowledge of the
architecture if that's what you want, especially when the
architectures that are different enough to matter are as rare
as hen's teeth.

No argument, though, that C and C++ ate unsafe by default.