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From: andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6
Date: 5 Dec 1996 23:37:37 GMT
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In article <5869r2$175$1@asgard.sprintlink.co.za>,
philips@asiatech.co.za (philip Shearer) writes:
>Casper H.S. Dik (casper@fwi.uva.nl) wrote:
>: Marco S Hyman <marc@dumbcat.codewright.com> writes:
>:
>: >Stage 1:
>: >Keep long 32 bits but now with 64 bit pointers so you can catch every
>: >program that assumes a pointer can be stored in a long or int.
>
>I don't see why anyone needs to store pointers as ints or longs
>store the them as pointers.
Out of curiosity, how would you print a pointer (for debugging say)?
This would not work for example (whereas is currently does on both
32 bit Solaris and 64 bit DU):
char *ptr;
printf("pointer = 0x%lx", (long) ptr);
How should it be done portably?
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