Re: my fussy compiler likes explicit casts

[James Theiler <jt at lanl dot gov>]

On 13 Feb 2003, J.J.Green wrote:

] Hi all
]
] > Someone who understands casting better than I (especially when const's
] > are involved) might want to look these over before applying them.
] > There may be better/deeper philosophical reasons not to employ
] > explicit casts, but they permit the compiler to work for me
]
] I think it is generally thought to be bad practice to
] make explicit casts of void* types, ie, as returned
] from malloc, at least in C programs (C++ may be different)
] - the C standard insists that a void* is automatically
]   converted to the correct type on assignment
] - explicit casts can mask errors
]
] See, for example the comp.lang.c FAQ
]
]   http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q7.7.html
]
] Cheers
]
] -j
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]
]

Thanks for the insight and for the reference, I suspected something
like that might be the case.  I'll take it up with Parasoft.

jt

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