I have a different objects, like this:
typedef struct { int32_t info ; } item1_properties_t ;
and
typedef struct { int32_t info ; } item2_properties_t ;
the objects are held in containers. I want to introduce a function that returns these objects (i.e. a const pointer) with minimum casts (working in C). I thought of having the function return the type and a void pointer, expecting the caller to cast correctly but I don't really like it. Do you have better ideas?