Re: [xml] [patch] make libxml2 slightly more thread-friendly

[Ted Phelps <phelps mantara com>]

Rob Richards writes:
> Ted Phelps wrote:
> > It should work fine so long as sizeof(LONG) == sizeof(void *), which I
> > think will be the case for any version of Visual Studio which doesn't
> > provide InterlockedCompareExchangePointer.  Your cast is wrong
> > -- you should be casting to a (LONG *) rather than a (void **) -- but
> > otherwise I think it's fine.
> >   
> That really depends upon the SDK used. For VC6 all I have available is 
> the included SDK which casts to PVOID *, so I used void **.

Weird.  The VS8 header files somehow avoid indicating the parameter
types, so my only information comes from MSDN:

    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683568.aspx

Cheers,
-Ted