[Mono-devel-list] Prevalence of pointer-integral-pointer casting in mono?

Peter Williams peter at newton.cx
Sun Aug 1 23:11:25 EDT 2004


On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 21:23, Jonathan Pryor wrote:
> I'm not sure about Mono, but glib (one of Mono's dependencies) does
> this.  It is generally assumed that a gint can be held in a gpointer.

The GPOINTER_TO_UINT and GUINT_TO_POINTER macros are used to address
this problem. I'm no expert on this issue, but I'm pretty sure GLib
shouldn't have this problem. 

Peter

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