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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW --- - Assignment from "void *" without cast treated as error within extern "C" block"
   href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=16407">16407</a>
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        <tr>
          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Assignment from "void *" without cast treated as error within extern "C" block
          </td>
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>clang
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Version</th>
          <td>3.3
          </td>
        </tr>

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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
          </td>
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>FreeBSD
          </td>
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
          </td>
        </tr>

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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
          </td>
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
          </td>
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>C++
          </td>
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>gibbs@FreeBSD.org
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>CC</th>
          <td>dgregor@apple.com, llvmbugs@cs.uiuc.edu
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
          </td>
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        <pre>[gibbs@aslan ~]$ cat foo.cpp

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

struct foo {
    int a;
};

static inline void
initialize_foo(void *data)
{
    struct foo *foo = data;

    foo->a = 1;
}

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

int
main(int argc, const char *argv[])
{
    struct foo my_foo;

    initialize_foo(&my_foo);

    return (0);
}
[gibbs@aslan ~]$ clang++ -v
FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (trunk 178860) 20130405
Target: x86_64-unknown-freebsd10.0
Thread model: posix
[gibbs@aslan ~]$ clang++ foo.cpp
foo.cpp:13:14: error: cannot initialize a variable of type 'struct foo *' with
      an lvalue of type 'void *'
        struct foo *foo = data;
                    ^     ~~~~
1 error generated.

The work around for this is trivial, but in our environment would mean forking
a third party C header file.</pre>
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