[C++-sig] Re: Pyste suggestion for handling returns of void *

[Niall Douglas]

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On 4 Oct 2003 at 8:02, David Abrahams wrote:

> > This probably leaves out virtual functions and may cause problems
> > with getting the address of overloaded methods. Still some support
> > for void * returns is better than none.
> 
> This isn't what I'd call "support for void* returns".  We should
> return and accept void*s as opaque pointers.

No it's a nasty hack to temporarily fix a problem. I agree opaque 
pointers should support void * but AFAICS the code currently doesn't 
support them. I thought you can specialise a template for <void> or 
something?

Cheers,
Niall





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