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Re: [RFA]: Remove warnings from ada-exp.tab.c compilation
> I'd write this as:
>
> /* FIXME: hilfingr/2004-10-05: Hack to remove warning. ...
>
> so that who added the note and when are clear. If you're curious grep
> for this pattern in the sources and quickly discover how old some of
> those tempoary hacks are :-)
Thanks for the suggestion.
> _otherwize_ ok,
Is that a Canadian spelling (:->)?
> PS:
> + tempbuf = (char *) realloc (tempbuf, tempbufsize);
> the cast is redundant - realloc returns (void *).
Yeah, well, call it a personal quirk, call it an act of rebellion.
But when I see an ISO standard that tells me I don't need this conversion
by saying that
"A pointer to void shall have the same representation and
alignment requirements as a pointer to a character type."
and then tells me IN A FOOTNOTE that
"The same representation and alignment requirements are meant to
imply interchangeability as arguments to functions, return values
from functions, and members of unions."
the horror I feel at this shameless confusion of abstraction layers is such
that I feel compelled to ignore the passages altogether (:->).
Paul Hilfinger