>>>>> "JH" == Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JH> None right now but then again it's my early morning precoffee
JH> brain... Are there any places with 32b ints and 16b ptrs? If so,
JH> casting ints to pointers and back would be even more debatable
JH> than usual.
having been majorly bitten in the derriere by a port project of a 32 bit
DBMS to alpha and their HEAVY asumption of 32 bit ints and pointers
being the same size, i would make sure we NEVER assume that pointers and
ints are similar in size. use unions if we have to but no casting
please.
<shuddering from the nightmare flashbacks>
uri
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