From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Pointers
Date:	Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:46:47 -0700
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mrichman AT cybernex DOT net wrote:

> Is it safe to assume that all pointer variables take up the same
> number of bytes, or is that compiler dependent.

The size of pointers can be of varying sizes according to the ANSI C
standard (although they rarely are), but you're guaranteed that you can
always cast any pointer (even a function pointer) to a void * and back with
no risk of data loss.

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