Re: why cast to char* through void*

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:31:53PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> 
> The compiler is allowed to assume that two pointers of different types
> point to things that don't overlap.

But there's an exception for pointers of type char *, isn't there?  At
least, I thought I remembered it was char *, but now I suspect it's
void *.

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