Messages in this thread | | | From | Ian D Romanick <> | Subject | Re: Q: void* vs. unsigned long | Date | Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:37:35 -0800 (PST) |
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> But what we need here is "an integral type which can represent all > possible pointer values". Unsigned long should be safe for that on all > sane architectures/compilers[1] and might even be guaranteed by the C > standard. Probably won't work on all DSPs though, but we're not likely to > see any of those running Linux soon for other reasons.
IIRC, C9X defines intptr_t in inttypes.h that does just this.
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