> > The ANSI C standard prohibits accessing data through a pointer to a
> > different type. I.e., this is wrong:
> Nearly. Except it's defined to be ok if one of your two pointers is a
> char* pointer, so your example doesn't work. Try int* and short*, for
> example.
Would it possible, then, to add a (debugging) option to the compiler which
would force it to /always/ try and break the illegal cases? That would make
chasing the things down easier.
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