llist_t and llist_pop

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr
Fri May 19 15:15:20 UTC 2006


On Friday 19 May 2006 155, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 19 May 2006, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > On Friday 19 May 2006 153, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > On Fri, 19 May 2006, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > [--SNIP: llist_pop returns data (which is char*) as a void* --]
> > > because a "void*" can represent a pointer to anything.
> > I know that.
> > The real question was: why is it stored as a char* in the first place?
> ah, sorry, i misread your post.  you're right.  you'd think they
> should all be "void*", wouldn't you?

Yep, exactly. I'll submit a patch which changes every occurences of char* with
void*. Along with the switch to void* in llist, of course!

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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