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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 19:12:32 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: Diff b/w 32bit & 64-bit
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Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> don't cast from "foo *" to "bar *" if sizeof(foo)<sizeof(bar)

What is the reason for this?  I do it quite routinely ("poor man's
inheritance").

cheers,
-- Jamie
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