Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] CODING_STYLE: add C type rules

[Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>]

On 08/17/10 20:55, malc wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Blue Swirl wrote:
>>> The other thing that might be worth mentioning in the int/long section
>>> is that long is complicated in broken development environments such as
>>> Windows where it is only 32 bit :(
> 
> There's absolutely nothing broken about LLP64 it's as valid as any other
> ABI. (That's to Jes)

Well it works if you program for it, but it still doesn't make it any
good when you can't keep a pointer in a long to apply arithmetic to it.
Anyway point with the documentation is to make it clear that we rely on
being able to do long foo = (long)ptr;

Cheers,
Jes