Re: Diff b/w 32bit & 64-bit

Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 7 Jul 2002 19:12:32 +0100

Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> don't cast from "foo *" to "bar *" if sizeof(foo)<sizeof(bar)

What is the reason for this? I do it quite routinely ("poor man's
inheritance").

cheers,
-- Jamie
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