Sorry about the previous incomplete mail. I clicked 
the send button inadvertantly. 

On Thu, 07 September 2000, "Edouard G. Parmelan" wrote:

> Correct my if I'm wrong, on the Alpha the expression (void*)-1 produces
> 0x00000000FFFFFFFF as the cast will not propagate bit sign and -1 is an
> int aka a 32 bits value.
> 
> Could you test that with the following C test case ?
> 
>     #include <stdio.h>
>     int main() {
> 	printf ("(void*)-1 = %p\n", (void*)-1);
> 	return 0;
>     }

On both Tru64 Unix and Linux/Alpha the following 
is the result
         (void*)-1 = 0xffffffffffffffff


> Also size_t should be 64 bits, but I'm not sure, so I have change
> gc_heap_base and gc_block_base to uintp.

Again, sizeof(size_t) is 8 on both OSs.

Is the problem lurking somewhere else?

Bharadwaj

Personal e-mail : abnay@altavista.com
                    or   abnay@altavista.net
_______________________________________________________________________

Free Unlimited Internet Access! Try it now! 
http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/altavista/index.html

_______________________________________________________________________