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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 16:27:49 +0100
From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Subject: Re: alignment bugs in prom_init
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 On Fri, Mar 03, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> writes:
> 
> > sp is 0x0023e784, val is at offset 120, which makes 0x0023e7fc. This
> > address is casted to u32, which changes it to 0x0023e7f8.
> 
> Since when does casting to u32 cut off the low bits?

Way before gcc4.0 release at least.