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Re: casting unsigned int to void*

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On 07/30/2012 05:55 PM, China Blue [Tor], Meersburg wrote:
> In article <5016ECE9.3050605@verizon.net>,
>  James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/30/2012 04:04 PM, China Blue [Tor], Meersburg wrote:
>> ...
>>> intptr_t is an integer which is large enough to hold a void* pointer 
>>> encoded in 
>>> an integer. This is an ancient bug dating back to the days when an integer 
>>> was 
>>> 60 bits, would always be 60 bits, and an address was 18 bits, and would 
>>> always 
>>
>> Your descriptions seem highly platform-specific; I'm not familiar with a
>> platform that had those particular characteristics. Could you identify it?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600

Can you give us any particular reason to believe that this particular
processor had a major role to play in setting up expectations, relevant
to the design of C, that were later violated by the Intel 8086 family of
processors, as implied by your earlier message? Your wording gave the
impression that 60-bit integers were so widely used that many people
thought they were universal. The article you linked to refers to the
60-bit words as "very large", belying that implication.

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casting unsigned int to void* Fred K <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2012-07-30 10:33 -0700
  Re: casting unsigned int to void* Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-30 13:59 -0400
    Re: casting unsigned int to void* falk@rahul.net (Edward A. Falk) - 2012-07-30 19:03 +0000
  Re: casting unsigned int to void* James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-07-30 14:14 -0400
    Re: casting unsigned int to void* Fred K <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2012-07-30 11:23 -0700
      Re: casting unsigned int to void* pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry) - 2012-07-30 18:46 +0000
        Re: casting unsigned int to void* Fred K <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2012-07-30 12:09 -0700
          Re: casting unsigned int to void* Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-07-30 21:02 +0100
  Re: casting unsigned int to void* bartek szurgot <basz@no.spam> - 2012-07-30 20:47 +0200
  Re: casting unsigned int to void* "China Blue [Tor], Meersburg" <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-30 13:04 -0700
    Re: casting unsigned int to void* James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-07-30 16:22 -0400
      Re: casting unsigned int to void* "China Blue [Tor], Meersburg" <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-30 14:55 -0700
        Re: casting unsigned int to void* James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-07-30 18:15 -0400
          Re: casting unsigned int to void* "China Blue [Tor], Meersburg" <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-30 15:18 -0700
            Re: casting unsigned int to void* Mark Bluemel <mark_bluemel@pobox.com> - 2012-07-31 08:30 +0100
              Re: casting unsigned int to void* "China Blue [Tor], Meersburg" <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-31 01:17 -0700
    Re: casting unsigned int to void* Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-07-30 23:36 +0100
    Re: casting unsigned int to void* Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-30 20:45 -0400
      Re: casting unsigned int to void* James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-07-31 07:23 -0400
  Re: casting unsigned int to void* Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-07-30 16:28 -0700
  Re: casting unsigned int to void* James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-07-31 07:26 -0400
    Re: casting unsigned int to void* 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-08-05 09:16 -0700
      Re: casting unsigned int to void* Ike Naar <ike@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2012-08-05 20:50 +0000
        Re: casting unsigned int to void* Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-10 11:05 +0300

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