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by josefx 463 days ago
> The "well written" remark is relevant.

So using casts that hid implicit int declarations for years is "well written"?

> Many style guides will consider implicit void conversions not well written C.

I could not find a "Many" guide, Linux Kernel and ffmpeg seem to advocate against pointless casts.

> Naturally we are now on C23,

So irrelevant to the creation time of ffmpeg and only applicable to intentionally non portable libraries.