[Freeciv-Dev] Re: PATCH: gint/gpointer casting in GTK+ client

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:59:43PM +0100, Ben Webb wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 
> > P.S.: How is GINT_TO_POINTER and GPOINTER_TO_INT defined on a alpha?
> 
> On an Intel:-
> #define GPOINTER_TO_INT(p)      ((gint)   (p))
> #define GINT_TO_POINTER(i)      ((gpointer)  (i))
> 
> On an Alpha:-
> #define GPOINTER_TO_INT(p)      ((gint)  (glong) (p))
> #define GINT_TO_POINTER(i)      ((gpointer) (glong) (i))
> 
>       So... it's still not exactly "pretty", but it does at least make
> the code a little more portable, and more robust should the GLib/GTK+ guys
> change their underlying types.

Note that in some places int is used instead of gint. I know this
because I changed this for the cid stuff. It may turn out that this
cause problems.

        Raimar

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