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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:45:27 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] correct seg fault address on ia-64??
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"Pereira, D LailaX E" <d.lailax.e.pereira@intel.com> writes:

|>  /* Align to a multiple of page_size, assumed to be a power of two */
|>   x =3D (int *)((long)(((int) (long)x + page_size-1) & ~(page_size-1)));

Never ever cast pointers to int!  Modern C gives you all you need:
uintptr_t.

Andreas.

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