Re: [PATCH 2/2] Use fixed-size integers for .idx file I/O
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>> - return ntohl(*((unsigned int *) ((char *)
>> index + (24 * mi))));
>> + return ntohl(*((uint32_t *)((char *)index +
>> (24 * mi))));
>
> Is that pointer gymnastics guaranteed to work? I.e., how do we know
> that we can access an uint32_t (or unsigned) at such an address?
if index is always aligned to a 4-byte boundary, this is safe. apart from that, the problem already existed.
cheers
simon
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