Re: [RFA] Fix gdb/277 by separating types

Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-13T05:22:26Z

On Sun, 12 May 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> This patch requires my previous cleanup patch. It fixes a test in
> gdb.c++/method.exp for GCC 3.x/stabs+, and closes gdb/277.

A minor comment about style:

> type = (struct type *) xmalloc (sizeof (struct type));
> + memset ((char *) (type), 0, sizeof (struct type));

Why the cast to `char *' in the first argument of memset? I thought,
since we require an ISO C compiler, we shouldn't need those anymore.
(There are more casts like that in the patch.)

The same goes for casting the return value of xmalloc, I think.