Is it a Bug? (void*)

Duft Markus Markus.Duft@salomon.at
Fri Mar 23 15:10:00 GMT 2007


Kevin P. Fleming <> wrote:
> Glen Beane wrote:
>> what about doing the conversion after incrementing the pointer?
>> 
>> void *myptr = (void*)(otherptr + 1);
> 
> Then the pointer will be incremented by sizeof(*otherptr), which could
> be anything and is likely to not be '1 byte'.

Yes, correctly... 

The thing is, i can cast to char*, but thats not the point. I just
wanted to know if it's wanted that void=1byte with gcc -> it's not
necessarily with other compilers. (it's not with microsoft's cl which
i'm porting to ;o))

Cheers, Markus



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