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A small nit-pick...
A small nit-pick...
Posted Mar 19, 2008 22:52 UTC (Wed) by vmole (subscriber, #111)In reply to: A small nit-pick... by dw
Parent article: Who maintains dpkg?
Oops, you're correct about that. I just looked in Plauger and Brodie's "Standard C" (which is not the standard, but I think we can trust them), and they agree: it's *object* pointers that can be intraconverted with void pointers.
But the hilarious thing is this:
The types _pointer_to_char_, _pointer_to_signed_char_, _pointer_to_unsigned_char_, and _pointer_to_void_ all share the same representation.So "(void *) 0" is interchangeable with "(char *) 0", but not "0" or "(int *) 0".
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A small nit-pick...
Posted Mar 19, 2008 23:15 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
This is surely related to the aliasing rules, which also have a similar special hole allowing aliasing of of void * and char *, but not of pointers of any other distinct types.