Re: [RFC] ASLA design, depth of code review and lack thereof

[Jeff Garzik]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> They're nice but they don't provide "cast checking", no?
> The main purpose of the magic_* stuffs in ALSA is to check the cast of
> the void pointer back to the original data type, which the compiler
> can't check.

Sure -- and that magic cast stuff is horribly bloated, and not needed in 
good code.

No other code in Linux does this -- therefore it should be removed.

	Jeff




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