Re: Add casts to tools/makedep.c

2007-03-13 Thread Joris Huizer 

--- Dmitry Timoshkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Gerald Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I accidently ended up building Wine using a C++
 compiler the other day,
  and came across the following.
 
  -char *p = xmalloc (size);
  +char *p = (char*) xmalloc (size);
 
 That's a problem of C++ not Wine if it can't cope
 with casting void * to
 another pointer type. Polluting the whole source
 with useless casts buys
 us nothing.
 

That's one of the few incompatibilities between C and
C++ actually. C++ doesn't really like void pointers.

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Joris


 

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Re: Add casts to tools/makedep.c

2007-03-12 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov 

Gerald Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I accidently ended up building Wine using a C++ compiler the other day,
and came across the following.



-char *p = xmalloc (size);
+char *p = (char*) xmalloc (size);


That's a problem of C++ not Wine if it can't cope with casting void * to
another pointer type. Polluting the whole source with useless casts buys
us nothing.

--
Dmitry.