Re: [PATCH] HDLC patch for 2.5.5 (0/3)

Francois Romieu (romieu@cogenit.fr)
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:39:22 +0100


Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> :
[...]
> Now... You just want to introduce an artificial struct which contains
> only the union... Why?

Copy-paste abuse.

> We could use just the union instead (?).

Yes. I'll try that tonite.

[...]
> Yes, the compiler would compile that. Anyway, don't you think it's
> a little messy? Void * pointers are IMHO not that evil.

Once the union in a struct disappears it should be minimal.

Regarding void * against union/union * I feel like minimal type checking is
better than none.

-- 
Ueimor
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