What does coding-style tells about integer types for pointers ?

[Kai Tietz]

Yes, it does. The pointer cast to a long and the cast of a long to a 
pointer e.g. in pex-win32 leads under x86_64 to an serious 
pointer-truncation. Windows x86 may have pointers exceeding the 2^31 
range. For linux on x86_64 it would fit, because the long has the sizeof a 
pointer, but this isn't so for mingw ;(

Regards,
 i.A. Kai Tietz

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DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> 
08.03.2007 17:30

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> In libiberty I found the following points.

Do any of these cause real failures?