Re: C++ pushback

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Fri Apr 28 2006 - 12:51:19 EST


Jan Engelhardt wrote:
It still can't typecheck void pointers. With C++ they're very rare.

Using C++ just because one can't verify that all type conversions in a C program from/to void* are as they are supposed to be is... well, think of something.

If you remove the 'just', I'd say 'a way to catch more bugs at compile time'.

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