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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
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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>
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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>