Re: [PATCH] A new version of the sys_swapon bugfix

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
03 Nov 1998 11:50:21 +0100


Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> writes:

|> Hi!
|>
|> This is a new enhanced version of the sys_swapon bugfix.
|> I've checked C standard and I cannot find any word about pointer + integer
|> being promoted first to pointer + long,

Pointer arithmetics is clearly defined, and you can add any integer type
to a pointer, independent of the size of the pointer or integer.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
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