zero extend pointer converstions to unsigned long long

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Thu Sep 23 23:56:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:35:51PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> 	* doc/implement-c.texi (Arrays and pointers implementation):
> 	Document zero-extension of pointers to wider types.

Why do you think extending unsigned is useful?  I claim that
the actual useful thing is target-dependent.  Thus this bit

> - @c On the other hand, it might be most useful
> - @c for the target if we extend according to POINTERS_EXTEND_UNSIGNED.

that you're deleting.

I do not approve your change as-is.


r~



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