void -> char cast

[Torbjorn Granlund]

Conor Williams <conor.williams at gmail.com> writes:

  Ubuntu - found when compiling with g++
  
  will51 at skynet:~/LPS!/lpsb/gmp-5.1.3/demos/expr$ diff exprfa.c exprfa.c.orig
  122c122
  <   edup = (char *)(*allocate_func) (i+1);
  ---
  >   edup = (*allocate_func) (i+1);
  
  
  will51 at skynet:~/LPS!/lpsb/gmp-5.1.3/demos/expr$ diff exprza.c.orig exprza.c
  51c51
  <   edup = (*allocate_func) (i+1);
  ---
  >   edup = (char *)(*allocate_func) (i+1);
  

You sent the above to the GMP bug reports mailing list.  Are we to
interpret it as a bug report?  I just see two patches (one apparently
backwards) with no explaation for what they are supposed to fix.


Torbjörn