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Re: Pointers in comparison expressions
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:28:14AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> You're missing my point; size_t was just an example, whoever does this
> will know what the correct type is for their system. All I'm saying
> is that we shouldn't go to the trouble to document and kick along some
> language extension, maybe even miss some optimization because of it,
> when there's a perfectly fine alternative to it for the user.
Having the user add stupid, potentially breakable casts which decrease
readability just because the standard says the compiler is allowed to
be a prick is not necessarily a good idea. I don't really see the
point of breaking or even warning on pretty much every memory
management or garbage collection code out there.
OG.