On 13/11/2018 17:11, James Bottomley wrote: > This is incorrect advice: there's no need to cast it to other *pointer* > types, but if you cast it to a non-pointer type (which this is doing) > the compiler will complain if there is no explicit cast. Right, sorry for that and thanks for spotting it James. Byte, Johannes -- Johannes Thumshirn SUSE Labs jthumshirn@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Key fingerprint = EC38 9CAB C2C4 F25D 8600 D0D0 0393 969D 2D76 0850