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

[John Goerzen]

Jan Hudec <address@hidden> writes:

> Glib manual says to this topic, that on all platforms in use (perhaps
> except something very obscure -- C spec does not quarantee this)
>
> sizeof(int) <= sizeof(void *) <= sizeof(long)
>
> but neither equality holds everywhere. Thus one can safely pass int
> values around in void * and void * values in long.

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.

In any case, the *proper* solution is a union.

-- John