From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 00:49:20 +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: >> 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 Michael> The code does perform the cast, but since the upper four Michael> bytes of the pointer will be meaningless, it's spits out a Michael> warning. Good point, what they really should be doing is to use long instead of void * then - you know that long = sizeof(void *) but you shouldn't get the error for that. Jes