On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 22:18 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > Your code will be safe on all counts if you change buf from int[] to > char[]. The language standard grants a special exemption to char* > pointers. Without that exemption, it would be impossible to write > malloc in C.
Actually it is not that what the C standard allows. What the C standard says is accesses via the character type is always valid and the normal type (and signed/unsigned version of both the normal and character type). This means accessing an element of the character array via any other type except via an unsigned/signed character type is undefined. Thanks, Andrew Pinski
