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Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> 
> You're assuming pointers have uniform representation.
> C makes no such guarantees, and machines _have_ had
> different types of representations in the past.
 >

And are there *any* such architectures for which gcc are targetted.  I'm not 
advocating advancing this to the C standard, I'm advocating not removing an 
extension which has been documented for a decade.

	-hpa