[Bug-gnulib] Re: gnulib/lib error.c

[Paul Eggert]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> I was tempted to remove all such casts from gnulib/lib, too,
> but wonder if it's worth the hassle for files that come from glibc.
> What do you think?

I asked Roland about this yesterday; no response yet.  He had
suggested that the casts from malloc were needed for C++ compilers
masquerading as C compilers.  But glibc itself contains many uses of
malloc without the cast.  So I'm not quite sure what the glibc policy
is right now.

Once I find out, though, and assuming they don't really need to
support compilers incompatible with C89, I'm willing to champion the
changes back into glibc.