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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!bonkers!web.nmti.com!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: 6 Dec 1996 15:52:54 GMT Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI Lines: 12 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <589fgm$san@web.nmti.com> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <casper.329d5a07@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <5869r2$175$1@asgard.sprintlink.co.za> <587shd$2sb@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonic.nmti.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91617 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1702 comp.unix.internals:11482 In article <587shd$2sb@anorak.coverform.lan>, Brian Somers <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote: > In article <5869r2$175$1@asgard.sprintlink.co.za>, > philips@asiatech.co.za (philip Shearer) writes: > : I don't see why anyone needs to store pointers as ints or longs > : store the them as pointers. > How do you align a pointer if you can't cast it to some kind of number ? Um, in a union? -- </peter>