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Re: pointer <-> integer conversion warnings (bogus -Wall warnings)
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:17:45PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> and I think that's pretty nice. One can safely assume that
> `size_t' is small enough not to overflow a pointer type and
> the double cast (aside from being easy to grep for) means
> "Yes, I really mean to truncate the integer if necessary
> before casting it to a pointer."
>
> On second thought -- is there really any such guarantee?
No, that's what C99's intptr_t is for. But as it happens, I've
never seen a system for which size_t was not the correct size.
r~