From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:37:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Trivial warning fix for imap-send.c
Message-ID: <20060313163707.GB87487@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <44151330.7020905@zytor.com>

On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 10:37:36PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On "real" machines, the biggest reason you'd care is that a lot of 
> compilers, *especially* in C++ mode, really still define NULL as "0"; 
> ostensibly because defining it as "((void *)0)" breaks some obscure C++ 
> casting rule.

Not obscure, just a religious issue.  Somehow in the creation of the
C++ standard the definition of void * got changed from "generic
pointer" to something else I've been unable to fathom.  That
definition, whatever it is, justifies forbidding implicit casts from
void * to anything else.  Some of the priests of the new definition
consider the existence in C of a usable generic pointer type to be a
failing of the language too.

  OG.