Re: AMD64

"Gene C." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sunday 28 December 2003 07:11, Renaud Deraison wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 05:40:52PM -0500, Gene C. wrote:
> > I am also getting a lot of warning messages saying that "cast of pointer
> > to integer of different size" which leads me to believe that even if it
> > dows compile, it may not work.
>
> Not necessarily. I know that Nessus has worked on 64bits platforms in
> the past. Most of the casts are actually int->ptr->int, so no
> information is lost and it will probably work.

So long as there are no int = ptr, then, yes, it should work.

I ran a quick check for the sizeof various variables and they are int=5, 
double=8, and all ptr=8.
-- 
Gene

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