Re: GType <=> gpointer

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Tuesday, February 3, 2004, at 03:28 AM, Manish Singh wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:03:24AM -0500, muppet wrote:
>
> > interestingly, the GPOINTER_TO_UINT casts were necessary to get
> > gtk2-perl working correctly on x86_64, and seem to have no ill effect
> > on mips.
>
> Uhm, those casts aren't really correct on x86_64 either (though it will
> work in most cases). type = (GType) pointer should work just fine. How
> did you come to the conclusion it was required?

a) to hush warnings about differently sized integers,
b) i didn't realize that a GType wasn't the same size as an int,
c) didn't cause it to break on x86_64 or x86 so i guessed it was ok, and
d) looked like the right thing to do at the time *blush*


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