Re: Add casts to tools/makedep.c

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Gerald Pfeifer"  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.

Add casts to tools/makedep.c

[Joris Huizer]

--- Dmitry Timoshkov  wrote:
> "Gerald Pfeifer"  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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