streaming: void pointer instead of char pointer

Allow any kind of buffer to be fed to read_istream() without an explicit
cast by making it's buf argument a void pointer.  It's about arbitrary
data, not only characters.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/streaming.c b/streaming.c
index 7e7ee2be6fe147ff660f8ab25618fbe4d4d0f11c..3a3cd1206af5465323760e952a836935ac271d32 100644 (file)
--- a/streaming.c
+++ b/streaming.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ int close_istream(struct git_istream *st)
        return r;
 }
 
-ssize_t read_istream(struct git_istream *st, char *buf, size_t sz)
+ssize_t read_istream(struct git_istream *st, void *buf, size_t sz)
 {
        return st->vtbl->read(st, buf, sz);
 }

diff --git a/streaming.h b/streaming.h
index 3e827709c85eeaf6669d05d0d59e288541ceb579..1d05c2a465c2c26f26b15a1a07cce6282ee5c0c3 100644 (file)
--- a/streaming.h
+++ b/streaming.h
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ struct git_istream;
 
 extern struct git_istream *open_istream(const unsigned char *, enum object_type *, unsigned long *, struct stream_filter *);
 extern int close_istream(struct git_istream *);
-extern ssize_t read_istream(struct git_istream *, char *, size_t);
+extern ssize_t read_istream(struct git_istream *, void *, size_t);
 
 extern int stream_blob_to_fd(int fd, const unsigned char *, struct stream_filter *, int can_seek);