[Kde-bindings] Fwd: Qyoto/Kimono: A 64 bit unsafe function, build trouble on Debian unstable

[Arno Rehn]

Am Montag, 28. Mai 2007 schrieb Richard Dale:
> On Sunday 27 May 2007, Arno Rehn wrote:
> >                 qint64 key = (qint64) o->ptr;
> >                 return (int) ((key >> (8 * sizeof(int) - 1)) ^ key);
>
> Well I tried a quick experiment, and I'm not sure the result has the same
> bytes as the original 'o->ptr' when there are 32 bits to a pointer and for
> ints:
Well, is that necessary at all? We just need a unique number, it doesn't have 
to be the pointer... And the returned value is unique since it is 'generated' 
from the pointer, isn't it?

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Arno Rehn
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