0 or 0L for empty pointers?

[Thiago Macieira]

David Faure wrote:
>On Tuesday 20 June 2006 23:15, Michael Buesch wrote:
>> On Tuesday 20 June 2006 20:02, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
>> > IIRC it was something with sizeof(long)==sizeof(void*) not always
>> > true. Any experts?
>>
>> sizeof(long)==sizeof(void*) is an assumption in the linux kernel, at
>> least. So it is true for all archs which are supported by linux.
>> I don't know if there are archs supported by KDE for which this is not
>> true, though.
>
>I was told that this assumption doesn't hold on Windows-64bit.

No, it doesn't.

All 32-bit machines I know use the ILP32 concept (ints, longs and pointers 
are 32 bits). All 64-bit Unixes I know are LP64.

But Windows 64-bit isn't. It's P64: longs are still 32-bit. Worst of all: 
Microsoft brags about it :-)

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