Re: GLib on Solaris

[Max Avramenko <max_avramenko yahoo com>]

Darin Adler <darin@eazel.com> writes:

> > char * cp = <gpointer type pointer> does not compile.
> 
> It's not standard C to refuse to allow this assignment. You are supposed to
> be able to assign from a void *, like gpointer, to another kind of pointer
> like char *. Not allowing this is one of the changes made by C++. Are you
> using your compiler in C++ mode or in some extra-picky mode?
> 
> > Usually I explicitly cast like this:
> > 
> > char * cp = (char *) <gpointer type pointer>
> 
> This is a fine coding style choice, but it shouldn't be required. That's one
> reason we have an ISO C standard, to prevent differences like this between
> compilers from causing trouble.
> 
> On the other hand, the GLib maintainers may decide that they want these
> casts added so that compilers that don't comply with the standard still can
> be used to compile GLib. So you should wait to hear from them for a more
> definitive response.

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