On 09/ 5/12 10:16 AM, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Brian Paul <bri...@vmware.com> wrote:
>> So assigning a void pointer to a non-void pointer is legal in C and illegal
>> in C++. I seem to recall some people compiling all of Mesa with C++ in some
>> situations in the past. Also, there were some C compiler(s) years ago that
>> required these casts (can't remember which).
>
> That would be interesting to know.
The historical problem I remember was pre-ANSI C89, when compilers either didn't
have (void *) so had malloc return (char *) or didn't have a header providing a
declaration of malloc before C added function prototypes. I don't think any
such compilers can still be used to build Mesa.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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