Re: [Gnash-dev] Problem compiling on amd64

[strk]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 12:41:37AM +0200, annonygmouse wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> My machine is an amd64 and today gnash from CVS does not compile anymore.
> The problem is in "libamf/amf.cpp", there are to places where a
> char* is casted to an int.
> I supose you already know, but on 64bits architectures in linux the data 
> model used is LP64 [1], that means that
>     * ints are 32-bit
>     * longs are 64-bit
>     * long-longs are also 64-bit
>     * pointers are 64-bit
> and when doing :
> char *x = something;
> 
> return (int)x-(int)strchr(x,SOMECHAR);
> 
> each casting looses information as gcc informs:
> amf.cpp:467: error: cast from 'char*' to 'int' loses precision

I dont' know about AMF internals, but that cast seems really
useless at first glance. Does it compile fine with you if you 
remove it ?

return x - strchr(x,SOMECHAR);

--strk;