Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:45:24 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.3.14: bug-fix for raw IO error recovery |
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> Don't do this. It leads to all kinds of problems for 64-bit architectures, > I'm not at all sure that casting (int) -1 to a pointer is at all safe. I > would not be surprised if it is entirely legal and expected on some > architectures for it to become 0x00000000ffffffff, which might be a > perfectly valid pointer.
what about something like:
blah = (void*) (~0uL)
sort of thing? (Assuming sizeof(long) == sizeof(void*))
-cw
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