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From: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
To: "Kjetil S. Matheussen" <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Passing C pointers through guile
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:05:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rmilk087er9.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0807092158210.29588@notam02.uio.no> (Kjetil S. Matheussen's message of "Wed, 9 Jul 2008 22:09:49 +0200 (CEST)")

"Kjetil S. Matheussen" <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no> writes:

> Also, various types of non-gc pointers are stored in integers in
> all of the rt-*.scm files in http://snd.cvs.sourceforge.net/snd/cvs-snd/
> and many others (xg.c, etc.). It would be horribly idiotic
> to write smurf's for all of those, or at least a common smurf, when a 
> single integer is enough.

What fraction of these uses are actually correct?  Have people run this
code on Windows 64 (which is LLP64, but on which long is 32 bits),
sparc64, and alpha.  I'm always worried when people store pointers in
integers - it's IMHO basically a wrong thing to do.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-11 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-09 20:09 Passing C pointers through guile Kjetil S. Matheussen
2008-07-09 20:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-07-11 13:05 ` Greg Troxel [this message]
2008-07-11 13:12   ` Kjetil S. Matheussen
2008-07-11 14:42     ` Ludovic Courtès
     [not found] <cmu-lmtpd-26382-1215792388-9@mail-imap1.uio.no>
2008-07-11 17:22 ` Kjetil S. Matheussen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-07-10 12:49 Kjetil S. Matheussen
2008-07-10 13:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-07-09 19:58 Kjetil S. Matheussen
     [not found] <cmu-lmtpd-29205-1215446748-1@mail-imap1.uio.no>
2008-07-09 16:50 ` Kjetil S. Matheussen
2008-07-09 18:32   ` Kjetil S. Matheussen
2008-07-09 19:37     ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-07-09 19:35   ` Ludovic Courtès

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