On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 03:35:15PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Writing a 32-bit value into the first half of a 64-bit variable (which is > what happens when you pass a size_t * as an int * and then write to it) > isn't guaranteed to get you anything useful regardless of how you > initialize it beforehand.
But in practice, it _might_ work on little-endian platforms (assuming the upper half was somehow initialized to be zero), which may very well explain why this was only seen on Alpha. Of course, it should have given a compiler warning on _any_ platform, but I guess it just wasn't heeded in this case. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
