Re: Remove some useless casts to (void *)

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Remove some useless casts to (void *)
Date: 2023-02-07 07:09:57
Message-ID: 2542ac5a-5dc6-608a-f9f1-360e11652826@enterprisedb.com
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On 03.02.23 00:59, Corey Huinker wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 5:22 PM Peter Eisentraut
> <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com
> <mailto:peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> I have found that in some corners of the code some calls to standard C
> functions are decorated with casts to (void *) for no reason, and this
> code pattern then gets copied around.  I have gone through and cleaned
> this up a bit, in the attached patches.
>
> The involved functions are: repalloc, memcpy, memset, memmove, memcmp,
> qsort, bsearch
>
> Also hash_search(), for which there was a historical reason (the
> argument used to be char *), but not anymore.
>
>
> +1

committed

> All code is example code.

I like that one!

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