Removing casts from code

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:

| > These changes are completely out of question.  I want to have return
| > values of allocation functions casted to the correct type.  Some code
| > you might want some day use with a C++ compiler and it also happened
| > several times that I changed malloc to alloca() in which can the cast is
| > sometimes needed.
| 
| The code is C (post-1989 C), not C++.

Sure.  But that does not mean they are not used in C++ components.

| If someday one actually uses some
| code as C++ source, then it will be worthwhile to add the casts as needed.

So, what does removing the cast brings us?  I see nothing, if not
gratuitous incompatibility.

Please don't do the removals you're planing, they are counter-productive.

-- Gaby