[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones) writes:
> Paul Eggert writes:
>>
>> I should warn you that the C Standard does not allow that sort of
>> cast. This is for portability to hosts that use different
>> representations for different kinds of pointers; such hosts can use
>> different calling conventio
Paul Eggert writes:
>
> I should warn you that the C Standard does not allow that sort of
> cast. This is for portability to hosts that use different
> representations for different kinds of pointers; such hosts can use
> different calling conventions for char * and void *, so casting the
> funct
"Oskar Liljeblad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sure, but assume you're passing strcmp for the comparison function,
> wouldn't you want to cast it to avoid the warning?
I should warn you that the C Standard does not allow that sort of
cast. This is for portability to hosts that use different
rep
Oskar Liljeblad wrote:
> > extern void my_sort (void *, size_t, size_t,
> >int (*) (const void *, const void *));
>
> Sure, but assume you're passing strcmp for the comparison function,
> wouldn't you want to cast it to avoid the warning?
Yes, and there's nothing wrong wi
On Friday, May 27, 2005 at 13:26, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > GNU libc defines comparison_fn_t in stdlib.h if _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
> > The type is defined like this:
> >
> > typedef int (*comparison_fn_t) (const void *, const void *);
> >
> > I tend to use this type a little everywhere, so I would
Oskar Liljeblad wrote:
> GNU libc defines comparison_fn_t in stdlib.h if _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
> The type is defined like this:
>
> typedef int (*comparison_fn_t) (const void *, const void *);
>
> I tend to use this type a little everywhere, so I would like to make
> a module for this definitio
