why casting pointer in mutt_mem_free

Kevin J. McCarthy kevin at 8t8.us
Tue Mar 27 14:24:41 UTC 2018


On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 03:04:34PM +0800, Yubin Ruan wrote:
> In mutt/memory.c, what is point of casting ptr from (void *) to (void **)? Any
> ancient C technique here?

Yubin, please avoid cross-posting across mailing lists like this.  As
you found, replies don't generally make it to both lists.

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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