Re: Some cleanup patches for: '...lvalues is deprecated'

[Joel Soete]

Hello Daniel,

> > So just use
> > 
> > 	buffer++;
> > 
> > here, and the intent is then clear.
> 
> Except C does not actually allow incrementing a void pointer, since
> void does not have a size.
That make better sense to me because aifair a void * was foreseen to pass
any kind of type * as actual parameter?
(So as far as I understand, the aritthm pointer sould be dynamic for the
best 'natural' behaviour?)

>   You can't do arithmetic on one either.  GNU
> C allows this as an extension.
> 
> It's actually this, IIRC:
>   buffer = ((char *) buffer) + 1;
> 
Many thanks,
    Joel


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