Re: Question about void pointers

vippstar@xxxxxxxxx writes:

You have two options, do it portably, or do it with an extension, with
absolutely no loss in efficiency or size, and you advice to choose the
extension.

I admit that, occasionally, I've used pointer arithmetic on void
* in cases where GCC is the only compiler that matters. (Code
inside the Linux kernel is one example.) The nice thing about
doing it that way is that it avoids having to insert additional
casts, which are ugly.

I wouldn't do it in a place where portability matters.
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