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To: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFA/TESTSUITE] build schedlock.c on 64-bit platforms
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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:36:00 -0000
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Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com> writes:

|> Daniel Jacobowitz 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?
|> 
|> 
|> Attempt #3....

IMHO the intermediate cast to long (or better intptr_t when available)
would be most portable.

Andreas.

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