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>

René Scharfe committed May 3, 2012 at 08:51 UTC 6163cd8a2a8703bdbd30920731aec32c68c39453
2 files changed +2 -2
streaming.c
+1 -1
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ int close_istream(struct git_istream *st)
99 return r;
100 }
101
102 -ssize_t read_istream(struct git_istream *st, char *buf, size_t sz)
102 +ssize_t read_istream(struct git_istream *st, void *buf, size_t sz)
103 {
104 return st->vtbl->read(st, buf, sz);
105 }
streaming.h
+1 -1
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ struct git_istream;
10
11 extern struct git_istream *open_istream(const unsigned char *, enum object_type *, unsigned long *, struct stream_filter *);
12 extern int close_istream(struct git_istream *);
13 -extern ssize_t read_istream(struct git_istream *, char *, size_t);
13 +extern ssize_t read_istream(struct git_istream *, void *, size_t);
14
15 extern int stream_blob_to_fd(int fd, const unsigned char *, struct stream_filter *, int can_seek);
16