Re: Useless pointer-to-int-cast warning?

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On 2018-08-18 14:19:10 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> Usually cast between a pointer type and a different size integer type
> is a programmer mistake.  That is why this warning is enabled by -Wall.

I don't see why. In doubt, one should be able to choose the largest
integer type available. Note also that the C standard does not say
that an integer type of the same size as the pointer is sufficient.

> Do you have evidence of many false positives?

False positives when casting to uintmax_t.

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