> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 26 02:10:57 2000
> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:03:33 +0200
> From: Dominik Kubla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LPRng: LPRng 3.6.19
>
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 02:46:44PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ...
> > Release LPRng 3.6.19 - Sun Jun 25 11:13:35 PDT 2000
> ...
> > The Tru64 compiler objects to casting pointers to ints, so
> > we have to cast to a long THEN to an int.
> > (Reported by: Justus J. Addiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>
> That doesn't sound like a good idea to me since sizeof(long) > sizeof(int)
> on 64bit systems. Are you sure that this is what you intended? I have
> stumbled over a lot of those casts from ptr to int back when the linux/alpha
> port started.
>
> Dominik Kubla
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It is NOT a good idea. It is a LOUSY idea. A HORRIBLE idea.
A NASTY idea. And it is used in only a very few places with
carefully contrived things like 'Cast_ptr_to_int()' and
'Cast_ptr_to_long()' so that I can find them and know where they
are and put the garlic and silver cross beside them.
Patrick ("No holy water - shorts out the motherboard") Powell
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