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Re: Strong versus (weak|runtime) typing

• To: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Subject: Re: Strong versus (weak|runtime) typing
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:34:04 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <200302130016.AAA19375@s...>

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Richard Tobin wrote:

> The only weak-typing constructs [in C] are pointer casts ...

You're confusing implementation and spec. :)  A compiler is allowed
to do "real work" when casting between pointers types.  The only
guarantee is that you can cast to (void*) and back again without
lossage.
        /r$

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