On 09Sep2012 20:00, Andrew Gaul <and...@gaul.org> wrote: | - /* suppress GCC aliasing warning */ | - imap_free_header_data ((void**) (void*) &h.data);
Pardon my ignorance, but what is (was?) the use of a cast like: (void**) (void*) A cast of a typed pointer to (void *) when handing it to something generic like free() I understand, but the above confuses me. I don't expect C to confuse me. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> Yay verily and was much work done, and several projects signed off. And there was much rejoicing. And QA came unto thy programming team and talked about having a post project dissection of 'what we could do better'. A great shadow fell across the land and the hackers fled into the darkest corners of the offices. - Alan Cox, 24aug2000
