------- Additional Comments From jboone at logitel dot com 2005-06-16 00:03
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Subject: Re: void * dereferenced in sizeof() yields 1
My apologies. And thanks for the polite explanation. I'll wade through
the man pages and start using a more appropriate set of compile options.
Thanks,
- Jared
pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:
>------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2005-06-15
>23:50 -------
>This is a GCC extension. sizeof(void) is invalid C and should error out and
>does with -pedantic-errors
>
>The reason why it is 1 and not 0 is because it is also a GNU extension that
>you can increment a void
>pointer like a char pointer.
>
>
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