diff -pruN libfame-0.9.1.orig/src/fame_malloc.c libfame-0.9.1/src/fame_malloc.c
--- libfame-0.9.1.orig/src/fame_malloc.c	2008-08-02 22:44:06.858140887 +1000
+++ libfame-0.9.1/src/fame_malloc.c	2008-08-02 23:05:08.693143429 +1000
@@ -36,9 +36,13 @@ void* fame_malloc(size_t size)
    */  
 
   ptr = (unsigned char*) malloc(size+ALIGN);
-  aligned = (unsigned char*) (((unsigned int)ptr & (~(ALIGN-1))) + ALIGN );
+  if (ptr == NULL) {
+	perror("fame_malloc");
+	exit(1);
+  }
+  aligned = (unsigned char*) (((uintptr_t)ptr & (~(ALIGN-1))) + ALIGN );
   padding = aligned - 1;
-  *padding = (ALIGN-1) - ((unsigned int)ptr & (ALIGN-1));
+  *padding = (ALIGN-1) - ((uintptr_t)ptr & (ALIGN-1));
 
   return ((void*)aligned);
 }