From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bookkeeping to prepare for a 64-bit EMACS_INT on 32-bit hosts Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 16:49:44 -0300 Message-ID: References: <4DBA71FB.5090900@cs.ucla.edu> <83mxj97889.fsf@gnu.org> <4DBA7F87.5040609@cs.ucla.edu> <4DBB67E2.1040202@cs.ucla.edu> <4DBED72D.9070207@cs.ucla.edu> <4DBF04BC.1010201@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304365798 4672 80.91.229.12 (2 May 2011 19:49:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 19:49:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 02 21:49:54 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QGz7v-0002PG-3n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 May 2011 21:49:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52572 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGz7u-0002ms-LX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 May 2011 15:49:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55006) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGz7s-0002mn-IL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 May 2011 15:49:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGz7r-0000eL-IV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 May 2011 15:49:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:34506) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGz7r-0000eH-Ft for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 May 2011 15:49:47 -0400 Original-Received: from 121-249-126-200.fibertel.com.ar ([200.126.249.121]:57240 helo=ceviche.home) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGz7q-0004FX-SR; Mon, 02 May 2011 15:49:47 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4698E66119; Mon, 2 May 2011 16:49:44 -0300 (ART) In-Reply-To: <4DBF04BC.1010201@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 02 May 2011 12:23:40 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138994 Archived-At: > static inline EMACS_INTPTR to_EMACS_INTPTR (EMACS_INTPTR a) { return a; } [...] > (which misses some silly mistakes) we can write this: > gpointer gi = (gpointer) to_EMACS_INTPTR (i); While it solves this particular problem, you'd have to write one for each and every type you may want to use, which is hideous. So no, I'd rather not go there. Stefan