Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 17:04:58 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
cc: David Eberhard <toothpck AT xmission DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: problem with memory allocation (I think)
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On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Cesar Scarpini Rabak wrote:

> At 11:00 08/01/98 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >Also, please note that it is usually a bad idea to put a long into a 
> >buffere which was malloc'ed for int's, like you do:
> >
> >   long i;
> >   unsigned int *buffer;
> >   ...
> >      buffer[i] = i;
> >
> >This works in DJGPP, since int and long are both 32-bit, but on other 
> >architectures it will crash.
> 
> Eli where did you get evidence for this affirmation?

Sorry, ``crash'' was the wrong word.  It just won't work as the author of 
this line thinks it would, if long is wider than an int.