my fussy compiler likes explicit casts

[J.J.Green]

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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