[Vm-dev] egg sucking alert

[Stefan Marr]

Hi:

> On 11 Dec 2014, at 19:28, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Bollocks.  long is an integral type defined to be large enough to take a pointer. 

Ignoring all the other issues in this thread, I would be very hesitant to take this statement as a general truth.
The last time I checked, the C standard defined only intptr_t and uintptr_t to be guaranteed to be a capable of holding pointers.

Best regards
Stefan

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