On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 12:08 +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 01:42:50PM -0700, Jamey Sharp wrote:
> > On 64-bit systems, int and pointers don't have the same size, so GCC gives
> > warnings about casts between int and pointer types. However, in the cases
> > covered by this patch, it's always a value that fits in int being stored
> > temporarily as a pointer and then converted back later, which is safe.
> > Casting through the pointer-sized integer type intptr_t convinces the
> > compiler that this is OK.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jamey Sharp <[email protected]>
> 
> Alan, Matthieu -- is this portable enough?

intptr_t is part of stdint.h in C99, but seems to also be in unistd.h in
UNIX98, which is nearly universal by this point unlike C99.

I would love love love to see us move entirely to stdint types instead
of the mess we've got now.

- ajax

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