Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 01/25] Introduce QEMU dictionary data type

[Paul Brook]

On Thursday 30 July 2009, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/30/2009 06:04 PM, Filip Navara wrote:
> > Again, intptr_t should be used here in long term. long is probably
> > fine for now before I post the Win64 patches.
>
> No, for the long term we shouldn't be putting pointers into integers or
> vice versa unless there's a really good reason to do so.

I'd go further than that. Don't put integers into pointers *at all*. It's 
really not worth it. Use a proper union/struct/opaque-pointer-to-value.

Paul