[geos-devel] RFC for Thread safe CAPI announced

[Chuck Thibert]

I like it when the compiler can catch my mistakes. :) I've not seen _HS
before.  Does it mean something particular?

Chuck


On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 14:25 -0500, Howard Butler wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> >
> > I'd add that I'd like the RFC to define the context of the context
> > structure.  I also think that the application visible handle should be
> > declared:
> >
> >  type void *GEOSContextHandle_t;
> 
> 
> I would suggest we change this to:
> 
>     typedef struct GEOSContextHandle_HS *GEOSContextHandle_t;
> 
> which makes it easier for the compiler to catch when we pass in an  
> incorrect pointer.  For GDAL/OGR, if you compile with -DDEBUG, this  
> pattern is currently applied, but it is not otherwise because we  
> didn't want to risk breaking existing client code.
> 
> Howard
> 
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