0On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 07:12 +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > On 2007-04-25, Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is this change likely to be acceptable, Tuomo? > > Umm... any kind of OO shit in C absolutely positively depends on > function pointer casts.
I haven't noticed this being necessary in the GObject system. It does rely on data pointer casts, but those are fine. > Or are you going to wrap all the _hundreds_ > of pseudo-dynamic functions? Over my dead body. > > More uglier is the case of function pointers to data pointers used > somewhere in the code. I haven't checked if there's a way around it, > but then again, any sane architechture will have matching function > and data pointers. (Functions should be nothing special! They should > be data like everything else! Stuff of the first class!) While these casts aren't allowed in standard C, casting between void * and function pointer types must work on any system which has dlopen(). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If God had intended Man to program, we'd have been born with serial I/O ports.
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