Funneling Objects through void*

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 15/06/2023 20:30, Johannes Kuhn wrote:
> Yes, it does seem wasteful. Might not be that bad, but it feels wrong, 
> especially if you got a void* parameter for that kind of thing for free. 

I believe this is the crux of the issue.

The native API is "telling" you to be used one way, but the capabilities 
of FFM point in a sligthly different way. And even though 
expressiveness-wise there's not a lot of difference (ultimately you can 
do the same things regardless of the approach) you're left with some bad 
taste in your mouth because the native API did provide the capability 
you needed, but you had to invent another mechanism to solve effectively 
the same problem.

Given there's alternatives, I keep seeing this as a "nice to have" 
rather than a blocker - but it's definitively on the list of potential 
improvements.

Maurizio