Re: Technical review requested

[Ray Strode <halfline hawaii rr com>]

Thank you for doing this, I learned a few things.

--Ray Strode

Small patch:

--- portable-programming.xml.orig       2002-09-04 18:00:26.000000000 -1000
+++ portable-programming.xml    2002-09-04 18:01:55.000000000 -1000
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@
         <para>In this section, I will mention a few of the small 
coding errors
         that seem to appear over and over again. Naturally, this list 
is not
         exhaustive and if your favourite coding error is not in the 
list, by
-         all means send it me for inclusion in a future version of this
+         all means send it to me for inclusion in a future version of this
         document. </para>

         <itemizedlist>
@@ -743,6 +743,20 @@
               between disparate types. </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
+                <para>Sometimes it is useful to store an integer in a 
pointer
+                variable. If you do this, make sure you use the
+                GINT_TO_POINTER() and GPOINTER_TO_INT() macros.  Different
+                platforms require different typecasts.
+                </para>
+            </listitem>
+            <listitem>
+                <para>There are times when it may be tempting to store 
a memory
+                address inside an integer variable.  Don't do it.  On some
+                platforms the size of integer types are less than the 
size of
+                pointer types.
+                </para>
+            </listitem>
+            <listitem>
               <para>As mentioned earlier, use the
               <literal>G_INT64_FORMAT</literal> and similar macros, rather
               than hard coding the print format string in your code. 
The format