Re: Where do pointers point to?

From: x-pander (ngclc_at_pitek.eu.org)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:50:59 +0100

>> void memset2(void *p, int c, int n)
>> {
>> while(n-->0) *((char *)p)++ = c;
>> }
>
> When my compiler considered this, it said
>
> "foo.c", line 4: warning: a cast does not
> yield an lvalue
>

yea, my bad, but that was not what the question was all about
let me change the implemetation to:

void memset2(void *p, int c, int n)
{
  while(n-->0) ((char *)p)[n] = c;
}

now it should be valid and the original question remains unchanged

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