Re: [RFA]: Remove warnings from ada-exp.tab.c compilation

[Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>]

>>> PS:
>>> +      tempbuf = (char *) realloc (tempbuf, tempbufsize);
>>> the cast is redundant - realloc returns (void *).
> 
> 
> Yeah, well, call it a personal quirk, call it an act of rebellion.
> But when I see an ISO standard that tells me I don't need this conversion
> by saying that
> 
>    "A pointer to void shall have the same representation and 
>     alignment requirements as a pointer to a character type."
> 
> and then tells me IN A FOOTNOTE that 
> 
>    "The same representation and alignment requirements are meant to
>     imply interchangeability as arguments to functions, return values
>     from functions, and members of unions."
> 
> the horror I feel at this shameless confusion of abstraction layers is such
> that I feel compelled to ignore the passages altogether (:->).

You could make up something like an XREALLOC macro (XCREALLOC?) to go 
with XMALLOC et.al.  That might be needed anyway as while a C compiler 
doesn't require the cast, a C++ one does.

whichever,
Andrew