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Re: Regarding recent void * change
Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au> writes:
> > I'm afraid that there might exist architectures where dealing with
> > values which are invalid as pointers will yield a bus error.
>
> This is a rather vague potentiality.
It happens with segment:offset pointers in x86 protected mode.
However, segment 0 is always allowed, so integers which fit in
the offset part (normally an unsigned int) are safe.
I don't know if there's an x86 unix which uses segmented pointers
and protected mode. Perhaps Microsoft XENIX.