Amir Mazzarella (12022-07-19):
> I understand that FFmpeg does not contain accommodations, but in my
> opinion it is less of an accommodation and more for readability, avoiding
> an implicit cast. An explicit void pointer cast, like the one presented in

The arguments against useless casts have been worded a thousand times,
let us not waste everybody's energy with one more.

> my patch, is done elsewhere in FFmpeg code as well.
> See https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/libavutil/hwcontext_qsv.c#L316

It is not the only coding style inconsistency around this line. Coding
style inconsistencies cannot be considered precedents.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George