Pattern: Assigning pointer to integer
Issue: -
Assigning a pointer to an integer (int/long/etc) is not portable across different platforms and compilers. For example in 32-bit Windows and Linux they are same width, but in 64-bit Windows and Linux they are of different width. In worst case you end up assigning 64-bit address to 32-bit integer. The safe way is to store addresses only in pointer types (or typedefs like uintptr_t).