Re: Using glib's g_file_monitor_file and g_file_monitor_directory

[Paul Eggert]

On 06/04/2013 08:16 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> You mean, if the monitor address is something other than a pointer?
> Or do you mean that the alignment of that pointer might be not enough
> to ensure that all the tag bits are zero?

The latter.  Also, suppose we're using a host with MSB tags, or
are compiling --with-wide-int.  All of these could cause problems.

> AFAIR at the time Stefan didn't like this alternative (or any other,
> for that matter).

I don't much like it either, but it's better than crashing.

(Maybe I should dust off my bignum implementation?  :-)