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Cc: Dale Johannesen <dalej@apple.com>, gdr@integrable-solutions.net,
        Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org,
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From: Dale Johannesen <dalej@apple.com>
Subject: Re: Compiling GCC with g++: a report
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 21:40:00 -0000
To: Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM>
X-SW-Source: 2005-05/txt/msg01308.txt.bz2

On May 24, 2005, at 9:43 AM, Joe Buck wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:03:27PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com> writes:
>>> I hope that doesn't require (void *) casts for pointer arguments
>>> passed to the likes of memcpy...
>>
>> Only the (void*) -> (any*) direction requires a cast in C++, the other
>> direction is still converted implicitly.
>
> For this reason, I always cast the result of malloc to the proper type;
> it just feels wrong otherwise.

Yes, if the cast looks odd to you, you probably don't go back far 
enough.
I've certainly used compilers that warned when you didn't have a cast 
there.