FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 09:11:00AM +0200, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> I'd like to change some API declaration

> 2- use correct pointer type in msg handlers
>   int (*msg_handler)(TDSCONTEXT*, TDSSOCKET*, TDSMSGINFO*);
> instead of
>   int (*msg_handler)(void*, void*, void*);
> This remove the need to cast at every message handling function
> Note also that this function prototype had been changed from last
> release

Normally, this is an advantage because it allows your callback function
to treat the arguments opaquely, so you don't have to include the
library's headers.  Is this not useful here?  (If you're doing lots of
casting in your message handlers, I suppose not.)

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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