[vlc-devel] [PATCH] win32: build.sh: trigger build errors on dubious pointer use

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le tiistaina 17. maaliskuuta 2020, 13.02.02 EET Steve Lhomme a écrit :
> On 2019-10-03 14:06, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> > This is as bad, if not worse, in the win32 script that in the common
> > configure.
> > 
> > Besides, Windows has in-built incorrect pointer types, so that's making
> > sure it won't work. E.g. haphazardly using char or uchar instead of void
> > for binary I/O functions.
> 
> I'm not sure what you're referring to but either we don't use any of
> these or the casts are already done properly since the code compiles
> with these checks on.

There are a lot of invalid casts in the Windows code: Almost every COM 
instantiation in the VLC code base is an aliasing violation (though that's 
orthogonal to this patch).

But again, I'm referring to binary I/O functions here.

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