[Python-Dev] #ifdef __cplusplus? (original) (raw)

David Cournapeau cournape at gmail.com
Fri Jan 2 20:06:38 CET 2009

Hi Matthis,

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Matthieu Brucher <matthieu.brucher at gmail.com> wrote:

When I learnt C, I was always told to explicitely cast.

Maybe your professor was used to old C :) It is discouraged practice to cast malloc - the only rationale I can think of nowadays is when you have to compile the source with both a C and C++ compiler. Otherwise, it is redundant at best (it was useful when malloc was defined as returning char*, and C did not allow for automatic void* to other pointer cast).

David

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