Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Q: void* vs. unsigned long | Date | 16 Feb 1999 05:44:30 GMT |
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Followup to: <36C900C8.EB3C534F@quark.vpplus.com> By author: Brian Gerst <bgerst@quark.vpplus.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Actually, it will. sizeof(unsigned long) == sizeof(void *) == 8 on > > 64-bit architectures. > > I thought it was int that changed with the word size of the > architecture, not long. Most C books I've seen said long is always 32 > bits regardless of the word size. Regardless, if the value represents a > pointer, then it should be declared as such - for the sake of clarity if > nothing else. >
That's bogus; most likely they have only worked on Micro$oft systems.
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