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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2002 17:16:01 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Aviast@yahoo.com
Cc:        freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: pathchk
Message-ID:  <200201302216.g0UMG1Y64367@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020130094110.16065.qmail@web14606.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20020130094110.16065.qmail@web14606.mail.yahoo.com>

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<<On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:41:10 +0000 (GMT), =?iso-8859-1?q?Michael=20Henry?= <aviast@yahoo.com> said:

> Are you proposing replacing "sizeof(char)" with "1"?
> Surely the former is more clear?

It makes it more clear that the author does not understand the C
language, perhaps.

> On another point: what is the general consensus on casting
> functions to void?

I am of the opinion that it is silly.  Other reasonable people
disagree.  (I happen to think that their reasons for disagreement are
the result of inadequate tools, and the appropriate response is to fix
the tool, not kluge up the source code.)

-GAWollman



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