Re: ObjC fixes for --enable-mapped-location

[Ziemowit Laski <zlaski at apple dot com>]

On 24 Sep 2004, at 13.44, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> Ziemowit Laski <zlaski@apple.com> writes:
>
> > > Here is a revised patch which includes all of the revisions you asked
> > > for.  I also kluged a test, proto-lossage-4.m, which was getting
> > > excess errors on 64-bit targets -- it is not clear to me what that
> > > test is playing at, sending messages to int, but the most expedient
> > > fix was to make it long int instead (which is the same width as a
> > > pointer on all supported targets).
> >
> > The test is checking for graceful handling of messages being sent to
> > nonsensical types.  By changing the test the way you did, I think you
> > are just masking the underlying problem.
>
> No, I don't think it is.  The "invalid receiver type" diagnostic is
> still being issued.  All this change does is suppress the diagnostic
>
>  warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
>
> which would appear on 64- but not 32-bit systems.

Ok, that makes sense.

--Zem