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Message: [QUOTE="ipo, post: 1675382"] I do not necessarily agree with your views on the use of casts. There are millions of lines of C code lying around that date back to the early days that still need to be maintained. In more than one occassion I've seen entire rooms with hundreds of volumes of source code printouts that had no documentation whatsoever because it got lost the last time the company moved. Faced with that the last thing that would cross my mind would be to upgrade compilers. I do not advocate those because they're not as widespread as void main(). As I'm sure you already know there are countless of texts that use the construct, starting with the Xlib Programming Manual. And I do not think I need to remind you of the number of Windows-based compilers by major manufacturers that support it which, like it or not, influence the majority of developers. [/QUOTE]