Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 9 20:30, David Allsopp via Cygwin-patches wrote: > > I have some code where the acl_t returned by get_file_acl is allocated > > at 0x80038248. As a result the acl_entry_t generated by acl_get_entry > > has an "index" of -1, since the pointer was sign-extended to 64-bits. > > > > My fix is trivial and simply casts the pointer to uintptr_t first. > > Pushed. I still don't quite understand what the compiler is thinking > there, sign-extending a pointer when casted to an unsigend int type, but > your patch works, so all is well, I guess.
Thank you - it is indeed hard to imagine when you'd ever want that behaviour! Would it be possible to have a snapshot with it, just for continuous integration servers which need the fix, please? David
