Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: 64-bit cleaning [PATCH]

[Jan Hudec]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 22:44:42 -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > John Goerzen <address@hidden> writes:
> >> That is an interesting observation, though what it doesn't express is
> >> whether different platforms actually react positvely to passing things
> >> of different sizes along.
> >
> > What does that mean?  I think in general on a sane system you can always
> > pass ints or pointers in a long, and be able to restore them later
> > without damage.
> 
> What it means is there is an open question in my mind:
> 
>   Can you pass a small int-like thing in a larger pointer and be
>   able to reliably extract it later, in a portable fashion?
> 
> For instance, can you reliably pass a 32-bit int in a 64-bit void *
> and expect it to work everywhere?  Or more to the point, pass an int
> in a void * and expect it to work even when they are different sizes?
> 
> I do know that it does work on Alpha, but I do not know if it actually
> works elsewhere, and it is definately not a good way to go in any
> case.

Yes, it's done in Gtk and works.

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                                                 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec 
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