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SubjectRe: Q: void* vs. unsigned long
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Followup to:  <m10Cjto-0007U1C@the-village.bc.nu>
By author: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > Interesting, so this tells that:
> >
> > rank(long long int) > rank(long int) > rank(int) > rank(short int) > rank(char)
> >
> > While following was the previous definition:
> >
> > rank(long long int) >= rank(long int) >= rank(int) >= rank(short int) >= rank(char)
>
> If that definition has been changed the C9X committee are broken. On X86
> for example short=long in size. Anyone who expects all the compilers to
> change their object sizes is to say the least misguided
>

That's not what it says. The original poster confused rank (promotion
order) with size.

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