Re: Cast as you can (VC++ 6.0)

[James W. W. <ja...@wr...>]

Roger Holmes <rog...@mi...> wrote:

>One way might be:
>
>myStruct * myStructPtr;
>
>myStructPtr =  ( myStruct*) ( (int) myStructPtr + sizeOfMyStruct ) ;

Better to say

myStructPtr =  ( myStruct*) ( (char*) myStructPtr + sizeOfMyStruct ) ;

There is no guarantee that the int type has the same size as a 
pointer type.  (Indeed, on the old 68K platform with CodeWarrior, int 
was 2 bytes.)
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