Re: pointer arithmetic on a pointer to void

2013/10/11 Craig A. Berry <[email protected]>:
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> On Oct 10, 2013, at 7:57 PM, James K. Lowden <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Pointer arithmetic on void* is invalid for the perfectly good reason
>> that the void type has no size.
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> Indeed.
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>> The choice between redefining the pointer to char* or casting void* to
>> char* is one of convenience.  If your one-liner makes the compiler
>> happy, I'd say that's most convenient.
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> Seems to to the trick and causes no new test failures here.
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>> Thanks for pointing it out.  I'm surprised it hasn't cropped up
>> before.
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> FWIW, clang and gcc can be made to complain about the same thing by adding -Werror-pointer-arith to CFLAGS.
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Committed 2 patches, one to add the warning and the other to remove the problem

Frediano