Re: [PATCH] fix crashing on amd64

[Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

On 1/11/06, Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud mandriva com> wrote:
> we'd experienced application crash on x86_64 for quite some time. it's
> quite reproductable with 1.11x branch. perl loops while trying to segfaulting.
>
> Patch from Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez mandriva com> traced it
> and fixed it:
>
> On x86_64, the conversions from ptr to int and from int to ptr will
> loose the highest bits of the pointer, leading to memory access
> violations. Use the safer macros that perl provides instead.

if those macros are not working it would likely be a bug in glib
rather than gtk2-perl. what version of glib are you all seeing
problems with?

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