Re: C programming on ARM


"CBFalconer" <cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:47A11649.3D617492@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Wilco Dijkstra wrote:

... snip ...

My point was that the bitpatterns of all pointer types are the
same for all addresses in the address space.

Not necessarily so. void* carries all the information, apart from
the object type. void* bitpattern is identical with the char*
bitpattern, but after that there are no limits.

You're talking about what the C language standards guarantee.
I'm talking about how compilers implement the language. On a
byte addressable architecture you can rely on the one I mentioned
above. The fact is most programs rely on this whether the standard
permits it or not...

Wilco


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