Re: Two pointers to the same obejct, two differnet values...

From: Gianni Mariani (gi2nospam_at_mariani.ws)
Date: 12/18/03 

Date: 18 Dec 2003 09:44:10 EST

Mattias Brändström wrote:
...
>
> The question is this: can I rely on this behaivour and expect to get
> differnt pointers on all platforms or are there some platforms that
> might give me the same pointer no matter on how I look at an object?

I don't think the standard mandates what the "integer" value of the
pointer should be. So I don't think you can rely on ANY behavior other
than the basic pointer arithmetic and implicit pointer conversions.

>
> I suspect that this is not portable behaivour and that it's completely
> undefined and compiler depandant. It would be nice to hear your comments.
>

exactly.

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