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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:57:23 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] more on why vc can't produce amd64 executables
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> You're casting a large int into a small int and this seems right.
> Just as (uchar)0x1234 => 0x34
>
> > marshalling a 64-bit pointer in this way will lay down the
> > bytes with the hi and lo reversed.
>
> Perhaps you meant to do *(uchar*)&x?

you're right.  what was i thinking.  still, pointers are marshaled wrong.
compiled on mips, this program

#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>

void
main(void)
{
	char *p;

	p = malloc(100);
	print("%p\n", p);
}
does this
; 6.crash
6.crash 203443: suicide: sys: trap: #SS pc=0x2048f2

- erik