Cornelia Huck <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Unneeded (and undesirable) cast of void*.
>
> Some people seem to prefer explicit casts to make the
> type more clear. Is there any concensus on this? (I don't care
> either way ;))
It's better to omit the casts because
a) they're ugly and
b) If someone changes the type of the RHS from void* to anything else,
we'll get a warning, probably leading us to a bug. The cast would have
prevented that warning. IOW, omitting the cast is more type-safe.
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