On Thu, 21 April 2005 09:36:18 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > I think Jörn means that if you need an opaque data type, use void > pointers (which are automatically cast to the proper type) and that > all other casts are a design smell (except for the one or two special > cases where you actually need them).
Two of my patches agree with you, two don't. Really, in almost all cases, casts are a Bad Idea(tm). Almost always, there is _something_ better. In some cases, this comes down to void pointers, yes. Jörn -- I can say that I spend most of my time fixing bugs even if I have lots of new features to implement in mind, but I give bugs more priority. -- Andrea Arcangeli, 2000 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
