On Wed, 10 May 2006, Matheus Izvekov wrote:
> On 5/9/06, Daniel Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > unsigned long may not always be 32 bits, right ? This patch fixes the
> Incorrect, its defined as 32bits for every standard C compiler
Nope, I believe that long is always suppose to be big enough to hold a
pointer. So if you have 64 bit pointers, long needs to be 64 bits. That
way it is always safe to do:
void *func(void *p) {
unsigned long l = (unsigned long)p;
/* do stuff with l */
p = (void*)l;
return p;
}
-- Steve
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