Public Comment Number PC-____ ISO/IEC CD 9899 (SC22N2620) Public Comment =========================================== Date: 1998-02-09 Author: Clive D.W. Feather Author Affiliation: Self Postal Address: Demon Internet Limited 322 Regents Park Road London N3 2QQ United Kingdom E-mail Address: Telephone Number: +44 181 371 1138 Fax Number: +44 181 371 1037 Number of individual comments: 1 Comment 1. Category: Normative change to existing feature retaining the original intent Committee Draft subsection: 6.2.2.3 Title: a pointer to an object should point to its first byte Detailed description: Add a requirement that a pointer to an object should point to its first byte when cast to a pointer to a character type. Without this requirement, functions such as memcpy() and fread() will not work as intended. In subclause 6.2.2.3 add a new paragraph after paragraph 7: If a pointer to an object is converted to a pointer to character type, the result points to the lowest addressed byte of that object. Successive increments of the result, up to the size of the original object, yield pointers to the remaining bytes of the object.