Re: [PATCH] Re: libglib-perl fails to build from source on mips(el), ia64 andalpha

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Tuesday, February 3, 2004, at 01:13 AM, muppet wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 00:14, muppet wrote:
> > i have asked the gtk-devel-list if there's something else we should be
> > using instead of GPOINTER_TO_UINT for GType <=> pointer conversions.
> > in the meantime, i propose that we define and use our own macros,
> >
> >         #define GPOINTER_TO_GTYPE(p)    (platform-dependent definition)
>
> attached is a patch that implements this, using the INT2PTR macro from
> the perl api.

according to timj[1], it's more correct just to cast directly, so i've  
committed that to cvs (without macro sugar).

ross, torsten, please test this out on x86_64 to make sure there are no  
regressions.  i checked it out on alpha and all is well.


[1]  
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2004-February/ 
msg00005.html

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