Add casts to tools/makedep.c

Joris Huizer joris_huizer at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 13 10:57:45 CDT 2007


--- Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at codeweavers.com> wrote:

> "Gerald Pfeifer" <gerald at pfeifer.com> wrote:
> 
> > I accidently ended up building Wine using a C++
> compiler the other day,
> > and came across the following.
> 
> > -        char *p = xmalloc (size);
> > +        char *p = (char*) xmalloc (size);
> 
> That's a problem of C++ not Wine if it can't cope
> with casting void * to
> another pointer type. Polluting the whole source
> with useless casts buys
> us nothing.
> 

That's one of the few incompatibilities between C and
C++ actually. C++ doesn't really like void pointers.

Regards,

Joris


 
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