patches for Irix binutils 2.18 -- removal of some casts

[Michael Hennebry]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Jay wrote:

> Is it essentially guaranteed that sizeof(size_t) == sizeof(void*)?

Close, but not quite.
If, for some reason, one could address more memory
than one could allocate to a single object,
then sizeof(size_t)< sizeof(void*) is a possibility.

I would expect that to be rare.

One could ensure compile failure if size_t wasn't big enough:
enum { __fred__ = 1/(sizeof(size_t)>=sizeof(void*) };

> But theoretically not, right?
> I mean, you know, I wonder, in the absence of widespread C99 support, what to store pointers in if I really want an integer, and later back to a pointer, with no loss. Long is not it, it is wrong on Win64.

unsigned long doesn't work either?

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