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Re: qsort() standard functions

From Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: qsort() standard functions
Date 2019-05-05 00:01 +0300
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Tim Rentsch:

> When the parameter is const void * (but the use is not):
>
>     int
>     some_callback_1( const void *vdata  /*, other parameters */ ){
>         Foo *data = (void *)vdata;
>         /* ... rest of function ... */
>         return  0;
>     }
>
> When the parameter is just void *, with no const (but the
> use is const):
>
>     int
>     some_callback_2( void *vdata  /*, other parameters */ ){
>         const Foo *data = vdata;
>         /* ... rest of function ... */
>         return  0;
>     }
>
> The first case needs a cast.  The second case doesn't need
> one, and doesn't have one (and still wouldn't if the
> declaration were 'Foo *data = ...' without the 'const').

Ah, I had simply forgot about this automatic pointer
conversion because of lack of practice in C.

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  Re: qsort() standard functions gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-04-24 16:12 +0000
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