r18612 - gnucash/trunk/src - Corrections to r18610 to permit compiling against older versions of glib

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

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>> Okay, so key is now NULL, which is fine.  But then the second line
>> just assigns pkey to the VALUE of key, which means pkey == NULL.
>
> Got it. That's my GCE.
> [...]

GCE?

[snip]
>> Fair enough.  I wonder if we actually NEED the explicit cast?
>> If we do then we need to come up with another way of doing it,
>> maybe by re-assigning after the fill-in call.
>
> Yes, otherwise gcc will whine about passing an incompatible pointer.
> Googling 'gpointer strict-aliasing' produced http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2004/4/25/13713/0715,
> which recommends reassigning, just as you say. I'll add that (along with a stern comment) shortly.

The new patch looks better.

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek

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