Duft Markus writes: > Kevin P. Fleming <> wrote: > > Glen Beane wrote: > >> what about doing the conversion after incrementing the pointer? > >> > >> void *myptr = (void*)(otherptr + 1); > > > > Then the pointer will be incremented by sizeof(*otherptr), which could > > be anything and is likely to not be '1 byte'. > > Yes, correctly... > > The thing is, i can cast to char*, but thats not the point. I just > wanted to know if it's wanted that void=1byte with gcc -> it's not > necessarily with other compilers. (it's not with microsoft's cl which > i'm porting to ;o)) 5.17 Arithmetic on `void'- and Function-Pointers ================================================ In GNU C, addition and subtraction operations are supported on pointers to `void' and on pointers to functions. This is done by treating the size of a `void' or of a function as 1. A consequence of this is that `sizeof' is also allowed on `void' and on function types, and returns 1. The option `-Wpointer-arith' requests a warning if these extensions are used.
