Nope!

Miscellaneous address calculations are (and were) generally done with char *
not void *.

IIRC the primary difference between ANSI C and C++ regarding void * is that
in C you can assign a void * to another pointer without a cast, but in C++
you need to do a cast.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Tellier" <jimtellier@COX.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: [OT:] Basic C pointer problem


> Bob Ammerman wrote:
>
> > The ANSI standard states that you *cannot* perform arithmetic on a void
*.
> > Any compiler that permits such behavior is not enforcing ANSI.
> Umm,, I think that depends upon which version of the ANSI standard you're
> talking about.   If I recall correctly, that "restriction" only came about
> with the introduction of the "const" concept.   Prior to that (and I
> honestly
> don't recall when that was, or (in the worst case) I'm confusing my C++
with
> my "C" (! :^)... I think it was most often completely "legal" (by the
> compiler
> writer's rules) to do arithmetic on void *'s , even though it was (mostly)
> frowned upon by the "purists" (in whose camp I generally pitch my tent).
> I seem to recall lots of usage of void* explicitly for the purpose of
doing
> "address calculation", e.g. for register-address offsets, etc.
> Eh?
> Jim

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