21 May
2012
21 May
'12
12:38 a.m.
AMDG On 05/20/2012 05:17 PM, Simonson, Lucanus J wrote:
Upon reflection it seems ridiculous to recompile a complex algorithm for no good reason to make it composable with an unrelated pointer type. I typically use an index instead of a void* pointer, but I don't really see one as being much better than the other.
One solution is to wrap/unwrap the void* around the algorithm, so that the implementation sees void*, but the user sees whatever his real type is. Not having looked at the interface in question at all, I don't know whether this technique is applicable, but it's something to think about. In Christ, Steven Watanabe