Re: type safe lists (was Re: PATCH: type safe(r) list_entry repacement: generic_out_cast)

Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
24 Jul 2002 15:23:39 +0200

>
> As long as your pointers are 32bit this seems to be ok. But on
> 64bit implementations pointers are not (unsigned long) so this cast
> seems to be wrong.

A pointer fits into unsigned long on all 64bit linux ports.
The kernel very heavily relies on that.

You are probably thinking of Win64, but this is not Windows.

-Andi
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