Hi,

i am trying to port an C-Module to tcl9. In the module there has been used a call to Tcl_Alloc to allocate memory for an char* variable dest_buf.
dest_buf = Tcl_Alloc(dest_size);

Now on tcl9 Tcl_Alloc has an return type of void, on tcl8 it has char*, so i got the error: error: invalid conversion from ‘void*’ to ‘char*’

I did not find something about that in the migration guide.

Any ideas for resovling this issue ?

best regards
Michael

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Michael Niehren <michael@niehren.de> wrote:

Hi,

i am trying to port an C-Module to tcl9. In the module there has been used a call to Tcl_Alloc to allocate memory for an char* variable dest_buf.
dest_buf = Tcl_Alloc(dest_size);

Now on tcl9 Tcl_Alloc has an return type of void, on tcl8 it has char*, so i got the error: error: invalid conversion from ‘void*’ to ‘char*’

I did not find something about that in the migration guide.

Any ideas for resovling this issue ?

Possibly casting the void pointer to char*?:

dest_buf = (char*)Tcl_Alloc(dest_size);

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