Do I have to cast here ?

[Bart Vandewoestyne <Bart Vandewoestyne skynet be>]

I have the following situation:

I have a function that i use for initializing the status of the parallel
port:

void mot_initialize_parallel_port(int *mot_parallel_port_status)

And in my main program I want to give this function a parameter that is
of type gint. Now is my question: do i have to cast this gint thingy to
a int or not?  I tried:

gint mot_portstatus=0;
...
mot_initialize_parallel_port( (int *)&mot_portstatus);


and i also tried:


gint mot_portstatus=0;
...
mot_initialize_parallel_port(&mot_portstatus);

and both methods seemed to work... 
What method is the 'best' one? (thinking of portability and stuff like
that...)

Tnx!

Greetzzz
MC303


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