What Is Systems Programming, Really?
> You should be able to forge a number into a pointer, since that’s how hardware works.<p>It's a C-centric view of the world and I wonder what old school FORTRAN77 people or lispers would think of this.<p>Anyway, I think the right to do this should be a privilege of the compiler. As soon as you claim this right, you abandon all possible support she can give you in battling all kinds of silly mistakes.