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From: davea@quasar.wpd.sgi.com (David B. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  comparing pointers to void functions
Message-ID: <61190@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 30 May 90 15:57:34 GMT
References: <9005301007.aa09801@VMB.BRL.MIL>
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Reply-To: davea@quasar.UUCP (David B. Anderson)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <9005301007.aa09801@VMB.BRL.MIL> you write:
>< 	if (thing->formstart == bgnpolygon)
>< The compiler says "operands of == have incompatible types".
[stuff deleted]
>#ifdef mips
>	if( (void *) thing->formstart == (void *) bgnpolygon )
>#endif
>
>	Anyone at SGI want to wedge  a fix in to the next release?

I already did for the 3.3 release.  void  and void * are fully supported.

Note that using void * in 3.2 can result in 
	``Internal error: schain botch'' :-(

Regards,
[ David B. Anderson  Silicon Graphics  (415)335-1548  davea@sgi.com ]
[``What can go wrong?''                          --Calvin and Hobbes]