Hi,
"Kjetil S. Matheussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The code in question doesn't run on those platforms anyway,
> since there's a lot of strict linux stuff.
You are certainly aware that GNU/Linux *is* available on sparc64, alpha,
etc.
> However, I don't the storage of pointers in unsigned longs (which is a
> perfectly legal thing to do if done correctly), would pose any problem
> for running it on other hardware.
Again, it's not "perfectly legal", no matter whether you do it
"correctly" (whatever that means) or not: the C standard makes no
provision regarding the size of `long' versus the size of pointer types.
It happens to work on the mainstream platforms you're using, but it's
definitely not portable.
And I suppose that's the reason why you want `scm_{to,from}_uintptr ()'
in the first place, otherwise you'd just live (dangerously) with
`scm_{to,from}_unsigned_long ()'.
Thanks,
Ludovic.
