Simon Anders
2010-Jan-06  15:26 UTC
[Rd] R_ext manual: type cast in C function registration
Hi,
the "Writing R extensions" manual currently advises to register a
.Call
function as follows:
   R_CallMethodDef callMethods[]  = {
       {"myCall", &myCall, 3},
       {NULL, NULL, 0}
   };
This produces a compiler warning, at least on my GCC, because the second
slot in the R_CallMethodDef is declared as DL_FUNC (which is declared as
'typedef void * (*DL_FUNC)();').
I'd suggest to change the example code in the manual to include an
explicit cast, i.e., 
   R_CallMethodDef callMethods[]  = {
       {"myCall", (DL_FUNC) &myCall, 3},
       {NULL, NULL, 0}
   };
in order to get rid of an unnecessary compiler warning.
Cheers
  Simon
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