On 21 March 2014 17:31, David Laight [off-list ref] wrote:

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*(int *)ret_freq = freq;

Because it is very likely to be wrong.
In general casts of pointers to integer types are dangerous.

Where are we converting pointers to integers? We are doing a
cast from 'void * ' to 'int *' and then using indirection operator
to set its value.