Re: what is typecasting a pointer to the type (void *)p mean?

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:56:57 +0100, Emmanuel Delahaye wrote:

>
> Somehow, yes. Note that the conversion from/to void* doesn't need an
> explicit typecast.
>
Well, not always but in this situation it is mandatory:
void foo(void *t) {
printf("%s", (char *) t);
}

int main() {
char *t = "test";
foo(t);
return 0;
}

So might as well use explicit casting since it is a lot more readable for
an outsider which later has to maintain the code. IMHO

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