>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:

Jason> On Tue, 19 Dec 1995 06:53:29 -0600 Peter Seebach
Jason> <seebs@solon.com> wrote:

Jason> "A lot."  In order for 32-bit and 64-bit code to live together
Jason> in the Grand Scheme Of Things, NetBSD currently assumes that a
Jason> pointer and long are the same size (i.e. pointers are often
Jason> cast to longs).

Jason> I can only imagine what would happen if we made that change and
Jason> then started having to conditionally #ifdef code to cast
Jason> pointers to longs on the alpha and ints everywhere else.

	IMHO, long != pointer and int != pointer... and neither should
be coersed to the other, ever.  It's just BAD.

Dave.

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