Yeah, I knew we were trying to stay away from char*; however, since this is
in the native string library, there's pretty much no getting around it :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Cozens
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] '
Sent: 10/1/2001 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bad cast
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 07:20:56AM -0500, Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs wrote:
> Casting to IV doesn't actually hurt anything (unless there is an
alignment
> issue); however, casting to char* is the more idiomatic way of doing
it.
> I'll commit this unless Simon says he is going to handle it in "The
Great
> Renaming".
Let me check it on Tru64 first. I'm basically trying to avoid char* in
all
its forms, but this is probably OK.
--
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program
in than some that do.
-- Dennis M. Ritchie
