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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Dominik Brodowski <devel@brodo.de>
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On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Dominik Brodowski wrote:

> The casts were probably introduced for that reason. Per se, they are not
> critical - but if there is any assumption later on that the data structure
> is indeed of the large size, there is a problem.

Perhaps the pointer chould be (void *) everywhere, and then cast to the
right size where and when it is used. Clearly casting the pointer to a
larger size will result in allignment issues on some machines.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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