Speex dev - Aug 2004 - hmm, howabout a typedef instead of void *

Hey,

can we make the pointers to the encoder and decoder state variables
somewhat more strongly typed? ;) I made a mistake where I basically
wrote

 speex_decode(&st, ...

instead of

 speex_decode(st, ...

That is why my decoder blew up all the time. The compiler wouldn't
complain. I suspected a corrupt speex bitstream, a corrupted stack
frame, etc... So much time wasted because of an ampersand character.

If we had a datatype other than void* for these things, these goofs
couldn't happen so easily ;) void* is evil.

This could be implemented in future codec versions without breaking
code compatibility (assuming no one is willfully casting his speex
handles to void*).

Oh, I got my domain and hosting for www.openacm.org - The site should
be up in 2-3 days.

Christian

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