> those casts are not allowed anymore As far as I know, aliasing rules are nothing but new. You can cast _to_ char, but that's pretty the sole cast allowed in

> those casts are not allowed anymore As far as I know, aliasing rules are nothing but new. You can cast _to_ char, but that's pretty the sole cast allowed in C [note: void is a kind of neutral, transitional type, and is not a cast per se]