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

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 01:59:21PM +0200, Joel Soete wrote:
> 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;

Joel, 

It seems the current code is working perfectly, generating correct
asm code. 

Could you come up with a good enough reason to do this cleanup (as far as 
I am concerned) in 2.4.x series?

Thanks
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