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Re: PATCH: Cast to int32 first when casting pointer to int64


On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, H.J. Lu wrote:
>
>> +/* The real type for T, where P is 1 if T is a pointer.  */
>> +#define __real_type_sub(T, P) \
>> +  __typeof__ (*(0 ? (__typeof__ (0 ? (T *) 0 : (void *) (P))) 0 \
>> +               : (__typeof__ (0 ? (__intptr_t *) 0 : (void *) (!(P)))) 0))
>> +
>> +/* The real type for EXPR.  */
>> +#define __real_type(expr) \
>> +  __real_type_sub(__typeof__ ((__typeof__ (expr)) 0), \
>> +               __pointer_type (__typeof__ (expr)))
>
> Referring to "real type" is hardly appropriate here; the point in tgmath.h
> is distinguishing real and complex types and referring to the standard
> rules for how tgmath.h determines a common real type.  I think you mean
> something like "intptr_t if P is true, or T if P is false" and then
> "intptr_t if EXPR has a pointer type, or the type of EXPR otherwise".

How about __integer_type with the updated comments?

> I don't think you need the x86_64 changes (I haven't seen such warnings

The x86_64 changes is for x32, which has exactly the same issue.

> there).  I'd have expected a smaller local patch in i386/tls.h, not
> changing common code at all.
>

I need it for both ia32 and x32.

Thanks.


-- 
H.J.


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