16 Nov
2004
16 Nov
'04
6:20 a.m.
Andreas Rossberg wrote:
Keean Schupke wrote:
Remember C is typesafe
In which parallel universe?
I of course meant strongly-typed, you cannot pass a pointer to an int where a pointer to a float is required ... modern C compilers require you to explicitly cast. Where it fell down was all that automatic type promotion, and providing unsafe casts. There is now a typesafe 'C', but I can't remember what it is called - presumably it uses some kind of linear-alias typing to make pointers safe. Keean.