error in Event::MakeMaker

[email protected] (( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann )) Fri, 17 Aug 2001 00:57:49 +0200

Newsgroups	perl.loop
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Event::MakeMaker describes a callback like this:

         static void x_server_dispatch(void *ext_data)

However, it is (quite sensibly) being called as:

        (* (void(*)(pe_event*)) ev->callback)(ev);

this is especially bad as callback is a void *, so there is no type
checking.


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