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Wesley Smith wrote:

> Is there a way to disable or work around the cast from x to y loses
> precision error under gcc 4.2.3?  what I'm doing is definitely safe
> but on 64bit systems, I get loads of compilation errors that I need to
> solve.

What do you mean, exactly?  I'm not aware of any such error.  There is
a warning, but I think it's optional.

Amdrew.