On 2019-03-11 12:57, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Looking at recently committed 2e616dee9e60, we have introduced this:
>
> + volatile xmlBufferPtr buf = NULL;
> + volatile xmlNodePtr cur_copy = NULL;
>
> where the pointer-ness nature of the object is inside the typedef. I
> *suppose* that this is correct as written. There are a few occurrences
> of this pattern in eg. contrib/xml2.
I think this is correct, but I don't want to wreck my sanity trying to
understand the syntax-level details of why.
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