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From: mike@peregrine.UUCP (Mike Wexler)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: void*
Message-ID: <1122@peregrine.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Aug-86 13:53:38 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 18 13:53:38 1986
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Reply-To: mike@peregrine.UUCP (Mike Wexler)
Organization: Peregrine Systems, Inc, Irvine Ca
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I agree that void* should not be automatically coerced to another pointer type.
I like the way the new operator is implemented in C++, but do not think it
would work as well in C.  In C++ operators can be redefined on a type by
type basis and it is convenient to have this operator called at certain
points.  In C, operators are not redefinable.  Therefor memory allocation
becomes a feature of the language and not a library function.  I do not think
this is a good idea.  One of the main advantages of C is that there is
a small kernal of the language that is all that is necessary to create a 
compiler.  The rest of the features are implemented in a library written in
C and replaceable by users that don't have the source code to the compiler.
-- 
Mike Wexler
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