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mlRe: Use of Mac OS X 10.5 / Leopards Garbage Collection Considered Harmful
FROM : Hamish Allan
DATE : Wed Feb 06 19:36:15 2008

On Feb 6, 2008 2:59 PM, John Engelhart <john.<email_removed>> wrote:

> "Wait wait wait,
> why did the compiler allow an unqualified void * pointer to be
> assigned a more qualified void * pointer, against ANSI-C type
> qualifier rules?"


Good point, and you might want to file a bug report with Apple that
gcc should generate a warning in cases like this. Luckily, this is not
the same as "Leopard GC is inexorably broken". Why are you so keen to
throw out the baby with the bathwater?

Hamish

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