Re: Suffix allowed on expressions?

Keith Thompson wrote:
CBFalconer <cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
dspfun wrote:

... snip ...

Could you give a pointer to where in the standard it says that an
integer (constant) can be typecasted to a pointer and the result
is implementation dependent?

You can answer this sort of question more easily yourself, with a
text version of the C standard and grep. grep is available
everywhere. For the text version I suggest N869_txt.bz2, which is
a bzip2 compressed version of N869, and is available at:

<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net/download/>

n1256.pdf, available at
<http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf>,
is more current. It's PDF rather than plain text, which may or may
not be a problem.

I'm not convinced that a simple grep would be useful in this case.
For example, the word "typecast" appears nowhere in the standard.
What would you grep for?

For example, I just entered:

grep -n cast \stds\n869.txt | less

and got a set of roughly 60 lines. This took all of 2 seconds. It
shouldn't take much to hide that output and just save the line
numbers, which can then be used to illuminate all the areas of
interest.

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<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>
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