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From: higgin@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Problems with compiling using 16-bit ints (MANX C)
Message-ID: <225@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-May-86 18:05:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.225
Posted: Sun May 11 18:05:19 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 13-May-86 03:29:33 EDT
References: <8605102156.AA03379@cory>
Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <8605102156.AA03379@cory> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP writes:
>
>	The most common problem is really not the compiler's fault.  Many
>of you all assume integers are the same size as pointers, and do things like:
>
>	win = (struct Window *)OpenWindow() ...
>
>	This is incorrect.  If the compiler uses 16-bit integers, and since
>OpenWindow() returns an integer, you will loose the MSB word of the
>returned value when it is converted to a pointer.  The proper way to do
>the call is:
>
>	extern struct Window *OpenWindow();
>
>	win = OpenWindow();
>....

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