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Pettenò: Debunking x32 myths

Posted Jun 27, 2012 12:26 UTC (Wed) by gioele (subscriber, #61675)
In reply to: Pettenò: Debunking x32 myths by oak
Parent article: Pettenò: Debunking x32 myths

> Fontconfig uses offsets instead of pointers.

It would be much better if there was a shared library or just a set of macros in headers (CCAN?) that C/C++ projects could reuse without dealing with dangerous pointer manipulations.

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