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From: Michael Madore <mmadore@turbolinux.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:14:36 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] integer -> pointer question
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> 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

The code does perform the cast, but since the upper four bytes of the
pointer will be meaningless, it's spits out a warning.

Mike