what is the suggested way to do void * arithmetic ?

Terry Lambert tlambert2 at mindspring.com
Fri Jul 11 03:02:10 PDT 2003


Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > I don't understand the second one.  The first one blows up because
> > you aren't parenthesizing, e.g.:
> >
> >       next = (void *)(p + len);
> >
> > The compiler is complaining because it doesn't know sizeof(*((void *)0))
> 
> ok, it actually evaluates to 1 and i thought it was some standard, probably
> it is not so i guess i have to cast to (char *) instead

THat's what I meant -- "char *", not "char"; sorry for any confusion.

-- Terry


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