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		kscaldef on Jan 10, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C C is weakly-typed. You can cast anything to anything else and the compiler won't stop you.

pimentel on Jan 10, 2013 [–]

That's right! Completely forgot about the cast.

dakimov on Jan 11, 2013 | [–]

The worse thing is that you can address a memory location and interpret it as another type (aliasing).

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