From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [WIP PATCH] Add 'git fast-export', the sister of 'git fast-import'
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:42:06 +0000 (GMT)
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Hi,

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Geert Bosch wrote:

> On Nov 20, 2007, at 22:40, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 	Oh, and it relies on "int" being castable to void * and vice
> > 	versa.  Is anybody aware of a platform where this can lead to
> > 	problems?
> 
> Like any 64-bit system? int is 32 bit and void * is 64. So, casting a 
> pointer to an int drops half the bits. When you convert it back it will 
> point to a funny place...

Have you even read the patch?  Like I pointed out in my reply to Hannes, I 
only need the guarantee that

	i == (int)(void *)i

for all integers i.

Ciao,
Dscho