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re: Warning fix for loader component
- To: Ben Elliston <bje at redhat dot com>
- subject: re: Warning fix for loader component
- From: matthew green <mrg at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 14:10:13 +1000
- Cc: sid at sources dot redhat dot com
- organisation: Red Hat, Inc.
matthew> Why was dest_addr cast to void *? It seems to me this way leads to
matthew> lossage! (On my system, the sizeof (void *) is 4).
matthew> unfortunately, i don't recall why i made this change. it might be
matthew> documented in a list somewhere, but due to the terseness of our
matthew> ChangeLog entries, i don't know the _why_ anymore. certainly, with
matthew> sid as it currently is, dest_addr can never be >32 bits, so it would
matthew> not have failed (yet.)
Please check again -- the function prototype declares dest_addr as
host_int_8.
sid doesn't currently support addresses > 32 bits, regardless of what
this code does.
.mrg.