From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: aoliva@redhat.com
Cc: ezannoni@cygnus.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: GDB CVS won't build on OSF4.0's cc
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 01:06:00 -0000
Message-id: <200106110808.LAA17400@is.elta.co.il>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00206.html

> From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
> Date: 10 Jun 2001 18:25:42 -0300
> 
> On Jun 10, 2001, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> wrote:
> 
> > On 9 Jun 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> >> Fixed as follows.  Not tested on all relevant architectures.  I'd do
> >> that after next Monday's GCC snapshot, since I've been building GDB
> >> along with GDB lately.  Ok to install?
> > [...]
> >> -  memset ((PTR) objfile->sym_stab_info, 0, sizeof (struct dbx_symfile_info)); 
> >> +  memset ((void *) objfile->sym_stab_info, 0,
> >> +         sizeof (struct dbx_symfile_info));
> 
> > Do we _really_ have compilers which require to cast the first argument of
> > memset to (void *)?
> 
> Dunno.  I was just dumbly replacing PTR with void*, as requested.

Does anyone know?

IMHO, excess casting is evil, as it can mask programmatic errors.
However, if GDB standards don't frown on this, it's fine by me.