Re: [RFA/TESTSUITE] build schedlock.c on 64-bit platforms

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

|> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 05:16:05PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
|> > Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> writes:
|> > 
|> > |> >  	args[i] = 1;
|> > |> >> -	res = pthread_create(&threads[i], NULL, thread_function, (void *)i);
|> > |> >> 
|> > |> 
|> > |> Try:
|> > |> 
|> > |>   (((char *) NULL) + i)
|> > |> 
|> > |> and what ever the reverse of that is ....
|> > 
|> > That is even less portable than the above.
|> 
|> Really?  What's non-portable about it?

NULL is not an object, and the C standard does not define any meaning for
the above expression.  On the other hand, the effect of a cast from
integer to pointer is implementation-defined (although it might trap).

Andreas.

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