[PATCH] Fix incorrect sign-extension of pointer in 32-bit acl __to_entry

[David Allsopp]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul  9 20:30, David Allsopp via Cygwin-patches wrote:
> > I have some code where the acl_t returned by get_file_acl is allocated
> > at 0x80038248. As a result the acl_entry_t generated by acl_get_entry
> > has an "index" of -1, since the pointer was sign-extended to 64-bits.
> >
> > My fix is trivial and simply casts the pointer to uintptr_t first.
> 
> Pushed.  I still don't quite understand what the compiler is thinking
> there, sign-extending a pointer when casted to an unsigend int type, but
> your patch works, so all is well, I guess.

Thank you - it is indeed hard to imagine when you'd ever want that behaviour!

Would it be possible to have a snapshot with it, just for continuous integration servers which need the fix, please?


David