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Re: alpha porting and errors



David Frey <david@eos.lugs.ch> writes:

> One has primarily to look for misuse and abuse of (pointer) types. There is
> too much software around, which thinks that 
> 
> sizeof(int)=sizeof(long)=sizeof(void *)=4.

I might add that compiling with -Wall is a good start to finding
these.  Adding -Werror can be useful as well, if it compiles cleanly
otherwise.

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