efriedma added a comment.

In D120936#3368566 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D120936#3368566>, @rnk wrote:

> I wasn't able to find any history for why `void*` was special here.

As far as I can tell, nobody ever thought `void*` was special.  The check was 
an attempt to restrict dubious conversions while still remaining compatible 
with existing code.


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