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The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++

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Re: The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++

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This has not much to do with skill. Standardization does not work like this, and I told you this before.

Yeah, I keep missing the existing practice in secure C compilers that is supposed to land on a WG14 paper. You can tell me the times you wish for, I will keep playing my trumpet until I see something in C that resembles to Modula-2 was offering in safety, nowadays brought back by Zig.

Your trumpet does not help and is just annoying.

Re: The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++

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I would argue that you would not really know what the compiler would be up to with the memory void* points to. To make sure I would put it in some kind of container.

Nobody uses void* in C++ you will get lectured if you do that.
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