[C++-sig] void* questions\thoughts

[David Abrahams]

Roman Yakovenko <roman.yakovenko at gmail.com> writes:

> On 10/31/05, David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> wrote:
> "Niall Douglas" <s_sourceforge at nedprod.com> writes:
>> > Would you integrate a patch adding void * as an opaque type if it
>> > came with docs, a testcase and ran on vc6?
>>
>> I'll go you one better.  If you give me everything else -- docs,
>> tests, and your best guess at a portable solution -- I'll make sure it
>> works on vc6.  The thing is, I suspect 1.33.1 is going to probably
>> freeze any day now, so the chance of getting it in is evaporating
>> fast.  In fact, only by calling it a regression does it have a hope.
>>
>
> I asked my question in order to get better understanding of void*,
> beffore I implements
> support to it in pyplusplus. ( TnFOX makes an extensive use of it. )
>
> Now it seems that nothing should be done in pyplusplus, am I right?

We'll see if Niall comes up with the goods.

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Dave Abrahams
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