Re: [gtk-list] Re: How to use a gpointer?

[Kevin Cozens <kcozens interlog com>]

At 02:22 PM 05/03/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org> writes:
>> gint     is merely an alias for the system's int and guarranteed
>>          to be >= 4 bytes in size, signed.
>
>This is a contradiction in terms.  The system's int is not guaranteed
>to be >= 4 bytes in size.

On 80x86 architecture machines, an int has often been only 16-bit. Whether
it is 16 or more bits has to do with the internal registers of the CPU
chip. When I used to port some Unix utilities to MS-DOS I more often than
not had to deal with programmers who tried to stuff pointers in to an int.
I always considered this bad practice (assuming an int and pointer were the
same size) not to mention it was a big pain in the a.. to have to deal with.



Cheers!

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