Re: C++ Deflate (zlib-like) library

From: degski (degski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-03-09 13:43:53

On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 07:11, Janson R. via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

>
> Casts are surely required when you need to write a callback handler
> which signature is imposed `void(void* payload)` by the C library.
>

The C++ compiler allows implicit conversions TO a void * type, but to
convert FROM a void * type requires an explicit cast.

By "not playing nicely" I mean that suddenly everything is a handle to
> something in the library and can live wherever the library allocated it
> (and that assumes that the running system even has dynamic memory
> allocation).
>

 If C would work like C++ it would be called C++, observing it doesn't work
like C++ is a no-op.

d.
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