From: _z33 <timid.Gentoo@gmail.com>
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: typecasting - explain
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:18:09 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dfri89$cse$2@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1126251195.4506.81.camel@kaushal>
kaushal wrote:
> hi _z33,
> Someone correct me if Iam wrong.the idea behind typecasting is
> to tell the compiler how u want to access a particular region in
> memory.Whether the region has to considered in terms of 4bytes at a time
> or interms of 1 byte at a time or 2bytes so on.ie.. when you use a
> variable to access a memory region the datatype of the variable would
> tell the size of the memory region which has meaningful data for us.
> When u typecast a variable it means u r trying to increase or decrease
> the memory region size.
I'm sorry my wording of the explanation of the typecasting is, I
agree, flawed. But, do tell me more on typecasting function pointers.
Does it mean anything different or still the same as typecasting of
normal data types?
_z33
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-09 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-09 19:46 typecasting - explain _z33
2005-09-09 7:33 ` kaushal
2005-09-09 8:48 ` _z33 [this message]
2005-09-09 9:28 ` Jarmo
2005-09-09 10:04 ` _z33
2005-09-09 13:19 ` Glynn Clements
2005-09-09 9:46 ` Steve Graegert
2005-09-09 10:22 ` _z33
2005-09-09 10:49 ` Steve Graegert
2005-09-09 11:10 ` _z33
2005-09-09 11:29 ` Steve Graegert
2005-09-09 13:17 ` Glynn Clements
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