Messages in this thread | | | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit | Date | Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:29:21 +0100 |
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Hi,
On 20 Aug 2007, at 01:19, David Brownell wrote: > On Sunday 19 August 2007, Al Viro wrote: >> is wrong; for one thing, it's a bad C (it's what uintptr_t is for; >> in general >> we are not even promised that ptrdiff_t is large enough to hold a >> pointer, > > ISTR we don't *have* a uintptr_t on all architectures, or that would > be the appropriate thing to use in these 32/64 bit ABI scenarios. > > >> Use unsigned long or uintptr_t instead. > > I suspect you mean "unsigned long long"...
No he doesn't. "unsigned long" is guaranteed to be large enough to hold a pointer (at least on Linux anyway).
On a 32-bit arch "unsigned long" is 32-bit and pointers are 32-bit.
On a 64-bit archi "unsigned long" is 64-bit and pointers are 64-bit.
Best regards,
Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
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