Re: Remove some useless casts to (void *)

From: Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Remove some useless casts to (void *)
Date: 2023-02-02 23:59:44
Message-ID: CADkLM=edJ4DBQQn1jZcDs9Lhn+s3o5P7PT3y3y_QRPcwQ8s3SA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 5:22 PM Peter Eisentraut <
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

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