Re: Boost.Buffers: network-agnostic buffer types and algorithms

From: Klemens Morgenstern (klemensdavidmorgenstern_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-01-28 04:26:52

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> Klemens Morgenstern wrote:
> > Additionally, I feel some need for a library managing raw memory. It's
> quite
> > common to just use vector<unsigned char>, but I find this incorrect,
> because
> > it's typed. Raw memory doesn't have a type, which is why malloc returns
> > void* and not unsigned char*.
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> Raw memory bytes do have a type, and it's `unsigned char`.
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Then why do malloc and operator new return void* ?