Re: [head tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd_at_codelabs.ru>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:55:47 +0400
Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:41:07PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2009-Jun-08 11:00:56 +0400, Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd_at_codelabs.ru> wrote:
> >		ifr->ifr_data = (caddr_t)(size_t)options;
> >-----
> >will be more correct and will disable this warning -- it will convert
> >u_int to the proper type that will be able to carry addresses for the
> >given platform.
> 
> Whilst I notice this specific problem has been resolved differently,
> for future reference, you should use [u]intptr_t rather than [s]size_t
> for this purpose.

Thanks -- I had trouble with recalling the name of 'intptr_t', so used
'size_t'.  Just curious -- are there platforms/compilers on that these
two are really different in sizes?  Or this is pure semantical difference?
-- 
Eygene
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