This seems to have gone AWOL in the email ether, so I am resending.
-------- Original Message --------
Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I have just noticed this code in plperl.c:
hv_store(plperl_proc_hash, internal_proname, proname_len,
newSViv((IV) prodesc), 0);
basically, here prodesc is a pointer to a struct, and we are storing it
as an integer in a perl hash for easy lookup by stringified oid.
How safe is this conversion on 64 bit platforms?
Not at all. I'd vote for converting the whole thing to a dynahash
hashtable ...
Further investigation yields this from the perlguts man page:
What is an "IV"?
Perl uses a special typedef IV which is a simple signed integer type
that is guaranteed to be large enough to hold a pointer (as well as
an integer).
So it looks like my original concern was unfounded. Sorry for the noise.
We now return you to your previous program ...
cheers
andrew
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