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From: "Moore, Mathew L" <MooreML@BATTELLE.ORG>
Subject: RE: Avoiding "assignment from incompatible pointer type" warning
To: 'Florian Weimer' <fw@deneb.enyo.de>, John Love-Jensen <eljay@adobe.com>
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> 
> 6.3.2.3(7) only ensures that conforming implementations may not issue
> a diagnostic for such programming errors.
> 

To help expand my (very) limited knowledge, does this mean that 

	float f;
	int *p = (int*)&f;

may not work even if sizeof(float) == sizeof(int)?

Thanks,
--Matt