[PATCH] xfree86: Fix powerpc build with -Werror=int-to-pointer-cast -Werror=pointer-to-int-cast

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On 1 November 2011 22:05, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com> wrote:
> While this does fix the build failure, I'd much rather change memType to be a uintptr_t everywhere, but it was explicitly set to uint64_t for 32bit powerpc by Ian in the commit referenced below.  Ian, can you explain why you set memType to 64bits even though void * is only 32bits?  You referenced ppc32 code running on ppc64, but I don't see why that would be problematic.

I'm pretty sure this was because 64-bit POWER machines were really
fond of mapping their PCI address space above the 32-bit range, so if
you truncated your addresses to 32-bit, you'd lose out.

Cheers,
Daniel