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[freetds] cast to void?

From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>
To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [freetds] cast to void?
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 19:19:23 -0500

Hi Freddy!

memset((void*)pnullrep->bindval, ' ', bindlen);

Why the cast? The first argument to memset is a void*. There's no need to
cast it. In C, any data pointer can be assigned to a void pointer, and a
void pointer can be assigned to any data pointer. That's why void* was
invented!

http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/rat/c2.html
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/memset.html

--jkl

[freetds] cast to void?, James K. Lowden, 12/03/2007
- Re: [freetds] cast to void?, Daniel Corbe, 12/03/2007
  - Re: [freetds] cast to void?, Christos Zoulas, 12/03/2007
    - Re: [freetds] cast to void?, James K. Lowden, 12/03/2007
      - Re: [freetds] cast to void?, ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT, 12/04/2007
        
        Re: [freetds] cast to void?, James K. Lowden, 12/04/2007
        
        Re: [freetds] cast to void?, Christos Zoulas, 12/04/2007