[Libvir] [PATCH] Support Sun's Compiler

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 05:05:15PM -0400, Mark Johnson wrote:
> On 9/7/07, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> > So, the bulk of this patch is just getting rid of the anonymous members
> > in the union. Looks huge, but its an obvious safe fix - I explored doing
> > this myself before to make us compile in c89 mode, but decided it wasn't
> > worth it at the time, since we've a tonne of other stuff which breaks in
> > c89 mode already.
> >
> > I'm rather puzzelled about this:
> >
> > -            free(names[i]);
> > +            free((void *)names[i]);
> >
> > There should never be any need to cast to (void*)  as far as I understand
> > things. There's a couple more examples of this. What error does the Sun
> > compiler give without this explicit cast ?
> 
> Hmm, strange... Yeah a cast is not needed here.  Was this something other
> than a char ** sometime in the past?  I will yank those out.

A while back in the 0.1.x series somewhere these params had the wrong 'const'
annotations, so it could be that the compiler was complaining about free'ing
a const pointer. So sounds like these are redundant now.

Regards,
Dam.
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