Lpc2000

Quoting brendanmurphy37 <brendan.murphy@...>:

>
> It's not at all clear what the actual intent of the programmer is for
> this: what's actually coded is a long way from memcpy, regardless of
> any assumptions you make about what the compiler does.

Actually, I thought (still think) the intent is pretty obvious.  Take whatever
'starts' at buf[i] and put it into an int.  That can be implemented pretty
straightforwardly by a memcpy.  What do you see that memcpy wouldn't do?

> I'm actually a bit surprised that GCC gives a warning: the only
> really incorrect line (language-wise) is the "ip = (int *)&buf[i];"
> one, but the programmer here gives an explicit direction to the
> compiler (by using the explicit type cast) that they know what
> they're doing. Most compilers would I suspect not issue a warning in
> that circumstance.

I'm going to have to see what lint does when confronted with this.  I expect
it's going to be pretty verbose ;)

> All of which begs the question: what is the original intent?

Robert