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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: void*
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Date: 10 Aug 90 13:55:21 GMT
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Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
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In article <13499@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <40624@mips.mips.COM> sah@mips.COM (Steve Hanson) writes:
>>however the inc/dec cause a temporary variable to be introduced:
>
>That could be avoided by defining the function as
>	void *memchr(const char *s, int c, unsigned int n)
>which works because of the "same representation" requirement.

Doesn't this defeat the purpose of (void *) as an abstraction
mechanism?
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