Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> wrote:
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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> > So in modern C, using NULL at the end of a varargs array as a pointer is
> > perfectly sane, and the extra cast is just ugly and bowing to bad
> > programming practices and makes no sense to anybody who never saw the
> > horror that is K&R.
> No! You can still get bitten.
Only if the compiler is completely broken.
> You're lucky that on common platforms
> all pointers look the same, but if you find one where `char *' (and
> hence `void *') isn't the same as `struct foo *' then, under appropriate
> circumstances you /will/ unless you put the casts in.
Show one platform where this is true...
> Now, maybe we don't care for GIT. That's your (and Junio's) call. My
> natural approach is to work as closely as I can to the specs (and then
> throw in hacks for platforms which /still/ don't work), though, which is
> why I brought the subject up.
If on the platform you use it doesn't work, change the compiler. Fast.
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