streaming: void pointer instead of char pointer

Allow any kind of buffer to be fed to read_istream() without an explicit cast by making it's buf argument a void pointer. It's about arbitrary data, not only characters. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-mirror · May 3, 2012 · 6163cd8 · 6163cd8
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diff --git a/streaming.c b/streaming.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ int close_istream(struct git_istream *st)
 	return r;
 }
 
-ssize_t read_istream(struct git_istream *st, char *buf, size_t sz)
+ssize_t read_istream(struct git_istream *st, void *buf, size_t sz)
 {
 	return st->vtbl->read(st, buf, sz);
 }

diff --git a/streaming.h b/streaming.h
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ struct git_istream;
 
 extern struct git_istream *open_istream(const unsigned char *, enum object_type *, unsigned long *, struct stream_filter *);
 extern int close_istream(struct git_istream *);
-extern ssize_t read_istream(struct git_istream *, char *, size_t);
+extern ssize_t read_istream(struct git_istream *, void *, size_t);
 
 extern int stream_blob_to_fd(int fd, const unsigned char *, struct stream_filter *, int can_seek);