On 16/01/12 10:29, john skaller wrote: > Why is a socket a void*, instead of > > struct zmq_socket_type_t* // incomplete type * > > ? > > The above helps to prevent type errors by preventing conversions from > and to any pointer type other than void* (in C) (at least without a cast). > In C++ you get extra safety (C++ doesn't allow conversion from a void*).
Once again, copying POSIX. In this case the raw C type of 'int' representing socket in POSIX had to be replaced by raw C type of 'void*'. Still, when the 0MQ-like functionality is moved to the OS (see the related project) we'll have to use 'int'. Martin _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
