Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Make implicit void pointer cast explicit

From: Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>
To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Make implicit void pointer cast explicit
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 23:23:56 +0200
Message-ID: <Ytcg7EXuSjNxd2XR@phare.normalesup.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMMoCOf5oawGbi4DPyyFeXOtS_-K3xcAXX7zjG34FSyz8G95+A@mail.gmail.com>

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Amir Mazzarella (12022-07-19):
> Thank you for your response! A C++ compiler can't do implicit casts like a
> C compiler can, in this instance. This is fine for most of FFmpeg's
> codebase, since these tricks are in C source files, but in this instance it
> is in a header file. If any C++ code includes this header file, even with
> extern "C", it won't be able to be compiled.

Thanks for clarifying. I confess I had more or less guessed. FFmpeg is
C, and its headers, public or not, as a rule do not contain
accommodations to be included as is in other languages.

> On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 12:08 PM Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:

Please remember that top-posting is forbidden on this mailing-list. If
you do not know what it means, look it up.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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