Subj : Re: Old C-program
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Ed Mulroy
Date : Tue Oct 11 2005 10:47 am

I think you are looking at source code that has been modified or updated 
over the years.  When a programmer updates the code he is going to do it 
with the idea of it working with a current compiler.  It is also likely that 
the code was updated more than once and not always by the same programmers.

..  Ed

> Vladimir Grigoriev wrote in message
> news:434baabc$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> Also it is interesting to note that in the same source module I
> found the following code
>
> if ((bentry = (BENTRY *)GetEntryBlock() ) != NULL)
>
> Why does a programmer in one case use (char *) pointer and
> in another case use (BENTRY *) pointer when compares with
> NULL? It is strange...

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