On 09/17/2011 04:28 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> i disagree. adding a proper solution once is superior to creating
>> dozens of special case hacks.  also it saves a lot of time in the long
>> term.
> Based on my experience so far, I have to agree with Pedro.
> But if you do have a superior solution, we'll take a look.
> I still have to tell you that I won't like it if your solution
> makes the code harder to read. Sometimes, that's OK because it
> helps achieving portability.  But when there is no such need for
> portability, it just gets in the way. Let's also be pragmatic,
> here and fix the problems that we know we have.
>
it would be nice to have an approach which would just work anywhere and 
respect the spec,
however i currently have not the resources to implement it.

thus, as you suggested, i came up with a small patch fixing the issue at 
hand. the solution should work on any sys/libc combination where 
sizeof(long) == sizeof(void*) and pthread_t is either a pointer or an 
int with sizeof equal or less than sizeof long.
this should cover all currently existing combinations.

i may find more spots in the future which need the application of the 
macro, and will eventually be sending more patches applying the 
conversion macro to it.

-- JS