Re: GCC headers and DJGPP port (OT)

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Phil Edwards wrote:
> 
> > That was one of my pet peeves about C++: I always considered the
> > historical "#define NULL 0" to be complete braindamage due to lack of
> > even the simplest kind of type-checking (and matching to a pointer type
> > is just one small portion of that type-checking - getting sane and
> > appropriate warnings is quite important). 
> 
> Funny, that's always been one of my pet peeves about C.  :-)

Hmm.. In C you _can_ avoid type-checking, but it's not that hard to make
it reasonably strongly typed: using gcc the magic flags are "-Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes", and some simple rules.

You still get all the implicit integer and FP conversions done, and that
can be occasionally painful, but not doing them is even more painful, so..

I don't think "void *" is a problem. It just should be used with extreme
caution. I think the "enum is a normal integer" thing is a much bigger
issue type-checking-wise.

		Linus