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Authored by jhb on Sep 27 2022, 5:41 PM.
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GCC warns about the mismatched sizes on 32-bit platforms where
uintmax_t is larger in size than a pointer.

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jhb requested review of this revision.Sep 27 2022, 5:41 PM
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 27 2022, 6:09 PM

assuming that you know that these can never be truncated, and that truncation won't cause a problem.

In D36753#834438, @imp wrote:

assuming that you know that these can never be truncated, and that truncation won't cause a problem.

If you have an offset bigger than size_t, you don't have a valid pointer (or you've wrapped around anyway). In practice arg2 are fairly small values that are offsets of fields in structures.