"Robert Shearman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Dmitry.