From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:34:42 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] integer -> pointer question Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Michael" = Michael Madore writes: Michael> On the other hand, it is not unusual to see void pointers Michael> used for storing integers, and the programmer has no Michael> intention of ever de-referencing the pointer. Glib and GTK+ Michael> make extensive use of this technique. Michael> The problem is that this generates the same warning messages Michael> as the first case, and it makes it more difficult to know if Michael> a particular package has portability problems. Michael> My question is: Is there a way to assign integers to void Michael> pointers without triggering warnings from the compiler? Hi Michael Storing integers in void pointers without a cast is simply broken and nobody should do that or to be more precise you cannot expect void * to be the same size as int. Basically the correct solution is to LART the programmer of the bad code. Jes