On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Jason Duerstock wrote:
> Perhaps some sort of watermark could be set for what is acceptable to
> cache as a whole file and what is not?

Um, easiest solution would be to cache whole files when they're being
written to, since typically (i.e. non-dbm case) you write the whole
file anyway.

> stackptr is originally typed as (char *)...in Alpha-land, pointers are 8
> bytes and sizeof(void *) == sizeof(long), not sizeof(int)...

So gcc's "long" on the alpha really is 8 bytes?  Is there a "long long"
too?

> What kind of evil voodoo is this and what's the proper way to fix it?

if (stackptr == (char*)-1) would be my guess.  But that's still
dangerous; bounds-checking compilers will flag it.

I guess stackptr=NULL already means something else?

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