Re: [AD] Proposed changes for Allegro 5 (6?)

[Sven Sandberg <svsa1977@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Shawn Hargreaves wrote:
> If the address is not a pointer type, this makes it far more
> obvious that it must be accessed in a special way, so people
> are more likely to produce correct and portable code.

But it is not portable to assume that you can store a pointer in a long:
they can even have different sizeof()'s. Can't we do something like:

   typedef void *al_video_memory_pointer;

This will not be dereferencable without a cast, and will also have a
more descriptive name.

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