[vorbis-dev] BeOS on PPC compile, thread question.

[michael shiplett]

David Mitchell <mitchell at ucar.edu> writes:

> The main one is that there are hundreds of implicit casts in the
> code that the Metrowerks compiler stops at. Unfortunately, it
> isn't happy with just giving warnings but insists on calling them
> errors. I'm cleaning them up, and was wondering if I put together
> a patch which changes the implicit casts to explicit casts, would
> it be accepted? Also, while most of them are changing the void
> *'s from mallocs and reallocs (and hence probably harmless), some
> of them are telling me that I'm taking void * pointers from
> internal structures and having to cast them, which doesn't seem
> quite right. I'm at work now, so I can't provide any examples. I
> can get some if anyone is interested.

AFAIK, a compiler which requires a cast from void * is behaving
incorrectly. One reason for void * is so one DOESN'T have to make
explicit casts from function return values.

michael

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