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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:06:18 -0700
From: Amar Takhar <verm@drunkmonk.net>
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Subject: Re: what is the suggested way to do void * arithmetic ?
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On 2003-07-10 12:03 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> David Leimbach wrote:
> >I think C takes a more low-level approach and says "void * is just an
> >address
> >void * + 1 means the next valid address".
>
> This is not true.
>
> The ANSI C standard forbids arithmetic on void * pointers,
> just as C++ does.
>
> GNU gcc has supported void * arithmetic for a long
> time as an extension, but it's not standard behavior
> and you should not rely on it.


Yes, please don't it'll just make things harder for TenDRA in the future :)

<-goes back to his cave.


Amar.