Re: malloc casts (was: [perl #42746] [PATCH] Continuing Parrot/C++ cleanups)

2007-04-26 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 26 April 2007 13:12, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 26. April 2007 16:43 schrieb Steve Peters: > > -    long * const out_array = mem_sys_allocate((sizeof (long)) * > > (arraylen + 1)); +    long * const out_array = (long > > *)mem_sys_allocate((sizeof (long)) * (arraylen + 1)

malloc casts (was: [perl #42746] [PATCH] Continuing Parrot/C++ cleanups)

2007-04-26 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Donnerstag, 26. April 2007 16:43 schrieb Steve Peters: > -    long * const out_array = mem_sys_allocate((sizeof (long)) * (arraylen > + 1)); +    long * const out_array = (long *)mem_sys_allocate((sizeof > (long)) * (arraylen + 1)); I don't understand the rational for such patches nor the mem_a