Re: portability question

[Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu>]

Could you cite examples?

Noah

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 23:15:40 -0800, Sheldon Simms wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I just started reading some of the GLib source code
> for the first time and I have noticed that the code
> often makes "nonportable" assumptions about the C
> implementation like arbitrary pointer/int
> interchangability, twos-complement representation of
> negative integers, "all-zeros" representation of a
> null pointer.
> 
> I say "nonportable" in quotes, because I suspect that
> these things actually are portable to all platforms of
> current interest, but still I wonder why the code was
> written this way when it's really not difficult to
> write the code without making these assumptions.
> 
> Are there any reasons?
>