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		magnostherobot on May 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Undefined behavior in C is a reading error Do you have an example of a situation in which you'd want to cast the result of arithmetic intptr_t values to a pointer? The situations I can think of off the top of my head would be better done as arithmetic between pointers.

bonzini on May 20, 2021 [–]

Arithmetic on pointers in turn is only defined if the pointers point within the same object (or right past the end of that object).

One example of using intptr_t would be going from a pointer passed to free() to a metadata block for the memory that must be freed.

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