Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
Type: Cleanup
Why:
The const qualifier is unnecessarily restrictive.
I intend to allocate and free such data on the heap in a future patch.
Instead, const should be primarily used on function parameters.
Question: do you realy have to use void pointers?
Yes.
Void pointers are
compatible with every pointer type and thus will disable the type
checking of the compiler.
This is intentional - it's a form of polymorphism.
The data stored can be of many different types.
Each test knows what type of data it is using.
Also you do not need to to cast a rvalue to
void * if the type of the lvalue is void *.
Yes, you do...the type of the lvalue is void*, while the type of the
rvalue is const void*. Not casting produces a warning (correctly).
Casting replaces the compile-time guarantee that the value will be kept
constant by runtime contract [ because both const and non-const rvalue
will be used in the future ].
