Re: a reminder about 64-bit machines

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

"Gareth Pearce" <tilps hotmail com> writes:

> On the topic of 64bit cleanness, would maintainers like it if I logged
> a stack of bugs against compiler warnings of the type 'cast from
> pointer to integer of different size' and its reverse?  I havent ever
> actually seen this cause actual problems - but its definitely not
> clean.  In some cases fixing it might result in an api change (at
> least on 64bit machines).

I don't see why ... usually, these warnigns just indicate
that an standard cast from void * to int needs to be switched
to use the G[U]INT_TO_POINTER() / GPOINTER_TO_[U]INT macros.

It's very seldom that when you are storing an integer in a pointer
you actually want to store a 64-bit quanity.

Regars,
                                        Owen