Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:05:41 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] ASLA design, depth of code review and lack thereof |
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Takashi Iwai wrote: > They're nice but they don't provide "cast checking", no? > The main purpose of the magic_* stuffs in ALSA is to check the cast of > the void pointer back to the original data type, which the compiler > can't check.
Sure -- and that magic cast stuff is horribly bloated, and not needed in good code.
No other code in Linux does this -- therefore it should be removed.
Jeff
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