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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: How to avoid an overflow during multiplication?
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 09:06:23 -0800
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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> On 07/02/2022 08:52, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>
>> Using _Bool works here too:
>>
>>      _Bool p_valid = p;
>>
>> The conversion to _Bool converts null pointers to 0, and non-null
>> pointers to 1.
>
> This leads to:
>
>      _Bool b;
>
>      b = &b;
>
> which looks unintuitive.  Usually the LHS would be of type T, then the
> RHS would have the incompatible type T*

It is querelis gratia querimonia as usual, I see.

(With apologies to my high school Latin teacher.  I never
was good at Latin.)