Re: Example in Docs: GPOINTER_TO_INT

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

mk daveg com writes:

> >  And _imho_ usign of macro GPOINTER_TO_INT and GINT_TO_POINTER will not add
> > more portability to code _now_ and _may_ add more portability in the
> > _future_.
> > Am I right?
>
> IMHO opinion as a bystander (and born a fortran coder...), these macros 
> should  be taken out and shot. 
> (For me, these ugly int/pointer tricks were about the only thing that kept 
> my i386/linux code (chemtool) from compiling and running on 64bit SGI 
> 'out of the box'.)

GINT_TO_POINTER and GPOINTER_TO_INT, are all about making these
tricks portable to different platforms. When used properly,
there should be no problems at with portability.

                                        Owen