Re: [WIP PATCH] Add 'git fast-export', the sister of 'git fast-import'

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 21, 2007, 14:01 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711211209080.27959@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <4743E1D6.4010308@viscovery.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> > 	Oh, and it relies on "int" being castable to void * and vice versa.
> >     Is anybody aware of a platform where this can lead to problems?
> 
> Win64?

Is this really a problem?  I mean, all I need is that i == (int)(void *)i.

My doubts came from platforms where you can access memory only aligned to 4-byte chunks, and that it _may_ be possible that some of them do not even store the least significant two bits.

Ciao, Dscho

P.S.: I'll try to read up on ptrint_t, as suggested by Shawn.