From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:30:54 +0000
Subject: Re: [klibc] klibc sparc trouble with gcc > 4.0
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Oleg Verych wrote:
>> +	uint32_t vx;
>> +	int dp;
>> +
>> +	if (vhi) {
>> +		vx = vhi;
>> +		dp = 0;
>> +	} else {
>> +		vx = (uint32_t) v;
> 
> `v' is a data in memory, accessed with 32-bits cast, thus operation
> yields high 32-bits part of `v'.
> 

Bullsh*t.  That would be *(uint32_t *)&v.  Casting between integer types 
truncate the high bits regardless of platform endianness.

	-hpa