Compiling GCC with g++: a report

[Dale Johannesen]

On May 24, 2005, at 9:43 AM, Joe Buck wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:03:27PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com> writes:
>>> I hope that doesn't require (void *) casts for pointer arguments
>>> passed to the likes of memcpy...
>>
>> Only the (void*) -> (any*) direction requires a cast in C++, the other
>> direction is still converted implicitly.
>
> For this reason, I always cast the result of malloc to the proper type;
> it just feels wrong otherwise.

Yes, if the cast looks odd to you, you probably don't go back far 
enough.
I've certainly used compilers that warned when you didn't have a cast 
there.