From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>
To: Jim Kleck <jim.kleck@NetergyNet.COM>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, insight@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Register group proposal
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:24:00 -0000
Message-id: <m2pug3zzs7.fsf@kelso.bothner.com>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-q1/msg00236.html

Jim Kleck <jim.kleck@NetergyNet.COM> writes:

> An alternative I have not seen discussed is to have "typedef void * blah"
> as the public interface (then the implementation would need to cast
> the object to the internal representation before operating on it).

Then we lose the ability of the compiler to catch type errors.
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	--Per Bothner
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