At 02:21 PM 9/20/2001 -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> > At 04:38 PM 9/20/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> > >On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:39:52AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > > > I don't want to do int->pointer casts anywhere in the source if we can
> > > > possibly avoid it. Yech.
> > >
> > >In which case, do we *need* a type that can hold both.
> >
> > I can't think of a reason, no. I don't promise that a reason doesn't
> exist,
> > however. :)
>
>Well, the following (macro-expanded) line in register.c tries to go both
>ways:
>
> chunk_base = (void *)(0xfffff000 & (IV) interpreter->int_reg ) ;
True. That's one of the really evil bits, though. (As is a good chunk of
memory.c...) I only yanked in IV as a typecast as a convenience, and it
really ought to be something else.
Dan
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