From e2a9f2ef988e6ff4ec9f943ead9285c67c56ffd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: raulgrell <raulgrell@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:37:37 +0100
Subject: Allow implicit cast from *T and [*]T to ?*c_void

---
 src/ir.cpp | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/ir.cpp')

diff --git a/src/ir.cpp b/src/ir.cpp
index 710456179c..b4af7f42e2 100644
--- a/src/ir.cpp
+++ b/src/ir.cpp
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ enum ConstCastResultId {
     ConstCastResultIdType,
     ConstCastResultIdUnresolvedInferredErrSet,
     ConstCastResultIdAsyncAllocatorType,
-    ConstCastResultIdNullWrapPtr,
+    ConstCastResultIdNullWrapPtr
 };
 
 struct ConstCastOnly;
@@ -8471,9 +8471,9 @@ static ConstCastOnly types_match_const_cast_only(IrAnalyze *ira, TypeTableEntry
     if (wanted_type == actual_type)
         return result;
 
-    // * and [*] can do a const-cast-only to ?* and ?[*], respectively
-    // but not if there is a mutable parent pointer
-    // and not if the pointer is zero bits
+    // *T and [*]T may const-cast-only to ?*U and ?[*]U, respectively
+    // but not if we want a mutable pointer
+    // and not if the actual pointer has zero bits
     if (!wanted_is_mutable && wanted_type->id == TypeTableEntryIdOptional &&
         wanted_type->data.maybe.child_type->id == TypeTableEntryIdPointer &&
         actual_type->id == TypeTableEntryIdPointer && type_has_bits(actual_type))
@@ -8488,6 +8488,18 @@ static ConstCastOnly types_match_const_cast_only(IrAnalyze *ira, TypeTableEntry
         return result;
     }
 
+    // *T and [*]T can always cast to ?*c_void
+    if (wanted_type->id == TypeTableEntryIdPointer &&
+        wanted_type->data.pointer.ptr_len == PtrLenSingle &&
+        wanted_type->data.pointer.child_type == g->builtin_types.entry_c_void &&
+        actual_type->id == TypeTableEntryIdPointer &&
+        (!actual_type->data.pointer.is_const || wanted_type->data.pointer.is_const) &&
+        (!actual_type->data.pointer.is_volatile || wanted_type->data.pointer.is_volatile))
+    {
+        assert(actual_type->data.pointer.alignment >= wanted_type->data.pointer.alignment);
+        return result;
+    }
+
     // pointer const
     if (wanted_type->id == TypeTableEntryIdPointer && actual_type->id == TypeTableEntryIdPointer) {
         ConstCastOnly child = types_match_const_cast_only(ira, wanted_type->data.pointer.child_type,
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