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                      3: pun                         Definition                        pun
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                      8: In the context of C, a pun occurs when a programmer uses one data
                      9: form interchangeably with another.  A pun most often occurs unin-
                     10: tentionally when  the programmer fails  to declare a  function as
                     11: returning a pointer; by default, what the function returns is as-
                     12: sumed to  be an  int, and  is handled as  such.  No  trouble will
                     13: arise if the program is run  on a machine that defines an int and
                     14: a  pointer to  have the  same length  (e.g., i8086  SMALL model);
                     15: however,  such code  cannot be transported  to an  environment in
                     16: which this is not the case (e.g., i8086 LARGE model).
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                     18: ***** See Also *****
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                     20: definitions, pointer, portability
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