[MOAB-dev] Incomplete types versus void * in ITAPS interfaces

[Jed Brown]

Sorry if this is the wrong list for this, but why are all the opaque
handles typedef'd to void * instead of incomplete types.  That is, why
not something like

  typedef struct iBase_EntityHandle_Private *iBase_EntityHandle;

in order to get some extra type checking?  Correct existing code should
not see any difference.  With this change, a possible logic error (using
EntitySetHandle for an EntitySet) in the VisIt plugin would be caught by
the compiler.

Jed
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