Re: why cast to char* through void*

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:16:05PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon 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 *.

Er, yes, yes there is. I meant to put that in the original post,
honest.

char * and unsigned char *.

void * doesn't matter because you can't dereference it.

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David A. Holland
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