Falk Hueffner wrote:
Jason Kraftcheck <kraftche@cae.wisc.edu> writes:In practice, how can it be anything other than a void*?It can't. You know, the "-pedantic" option is called "-pedantic" for a
Yes, but there's a difference between pedantic and pointless. Although you've convinced me it is the former.
reason. It doesn't make a difference on any existing gcc platform, but it would be possible to cnstruct a C99-compliant environment where it [does].
I hadn't considered an environment where void* and some other pointer type (e.g. char* on a word-addressable machine) would actually have a different binary representation when pointing to the same memory.