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From: ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Function-types: compatability, and typedefs
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Date: 5 Sep 89 03:41:50 GMT
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I wrote
  int cmp(char **s1, char **s2) { return strcmp(*s1, *s2); }
flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) correct this to
  int cmp(void *s1, void *s2) { return(strcmp(*(char **)s1, *(char **)s2)); }
Karl Heuer pointed out
  This isn't just a quibble.  There are many real machines out there that have
  more than one pointer format.  The code will fail in mysterious ways if you
  don't declare the formal arguments to be the same type as the actuals.

Related but different question:

  I believe that the draft standard requires void* and char* to have the
  same representation.  I understand that this doesn't mean that char*
  and char** will be the same, or that void* and char** will be the same,
  but will void** and char** be the same?