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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Manxifying Lattice Code
Message-ID: <8808061912.AA02369@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 6 Aug 88 19:12:07 GMT
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>Also, Stuart mentioned he was compiling with +L.  Doesn't that mean that
>Manx will use longs for ints rather than shorts?  And if so, doesn't THAT
>mean that "sizeof(tplanet)" will be a long?  So, the question is: what will
>malloc() do when you pass it a long and it wants a short?

	Assuming you LINK with the proper library (c32.lib), malloc WANTS
a long.

>	pplant = (tplanet *) malloc((short)sizeof(tplanet));

	The compiler would promptly expand sizeof() backup to a long after
chopping the high 16 bits and pass a long. (assuming you are compiling with +L)

				-Matt