Re: [PATCH 03/11] hashmap_entry_init takes "struct hashmap_entry *"

> On 8/25/2019 10:43 PM, Eric Wong wrote:
> > C compilers do type checking to make life easier for us.  So
> > rely on that and update all hashmap_entry_init callers to take
> > "struct hashmap_entry *" to avoid future bugs while improving
> > safety and readability.
>
> Overall I like this change. I'll need to keep it in mind with my
> sparse-checkout work that is adding more hashmap types.
>
> One _might_ think that this change is relaxing the condition on
> where the hashmap_entry appears within the super-struct, but
> the hashmap internals will still use void* and perform a cast
> to hashmap_entry for hash comparisons.