Void pointers mean no type safety, preventing a lot of potential compiler optimizations and static analysis checks. 99% of the time the right thing to do is ju

Void pointers mean no type safety, preventing a lot of potential compiler optimizations and static analysis checks. 99% of the time the right thing to do is just create a new type: typedef struct Strref_t { char* str; size_t ref; } Strref; There, just pass a pointer of that type around.