Removing casts from code

[Ulrich Drepper]

Roland McGrath wrote:

> The code is C (post-1989 C), not C++.

A lot of the code is used outside glibc and perhaps even in C++ code.


> alloca returns void * as well and I have never heard of any reason a cast
> would be needed.

This is a problem with several compilers.  The cast is necessary, just
look at the ChangeLog of various GNU packages.

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