Re: [Monotone-devel] pointer arithmetics in C++

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:17:05PM +0200, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know, I know, it's evil. I want to do some pointer arithmetics 
> anyway... I need to build a hash or digest or something from three 
> 'unsigned int' values and a pointer.

Is it really the pointer that you need to hash, not the value it
points to?  Could you give more details about what exactly you're
trying to do? :-)

If that's really what you want, you need something like

  x1 ^ x2 ^ x3 ^ reinterpret_cast<int>(my_pointer);

(Or perhaps multiplication would be better, or something, hash
functions are not that easy to design.)

Except that this assumes that pointers and integers are the same width
on your machine, i.e., it's not 64-bit safe, which is Bad.

This looks like a decent summary of the different new-style casts:
  http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=312456

-- Nathaniel

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