"Robert Shearman" R.J.Shearman@warwick.ac.uk wrote:
No, Aric is correct, although it doesn't make a difference on the 32-bit Intel platform. On others sizeof(long) might not be equal to sizeof(void*) and "void *" is the real type of handles.
Alexandre explained that already. That's a historical thing. Anyway, Alexandre has fixed this already when he committed the patch.