Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Q: void* vs. unsigned long | Date | 16 Feb 1999 07:28:25 GMT |
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Followup to: <XFMail.990215231913.jeremy@goop.org> By author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > On 16-Feb-99 Brian Gerst wrote: > > 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. > > Throw them away. > > long is defined to be the longest integer type, long enough to hold any other > integer value (which is why "long long" is inherently broken). Casting between > void * and long is never portable, but a compiler implementer would be a fool > to break it. >
"long" *was* defined to be the longest integer type. Not anymore. Get over it.
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