Dave Korn wrote: > Only unsigned char *, isn't it?
Any kind of char *. The standard says simply "a character type" (6.5 #7), and it also says that any signed or unsigned variant of the effective type may also alias that type. > Looking at the mask value, it has ten bits set. Hence 1024 possible > results. Looking at the 0 bits to the right of them, they are spaced in > 1<<18 = 1<<(16+2) = 1<<16 * 1<<2 = 64k * 4 = 256kB units. I did this in my > head, so I may be having a brain fart for all I know. You're right, my logic was wrong. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/