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From: pierre@Autodesk.COM (Pierre Malraison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: void * from C to C++
Keywords: void,pointer,mixing with C
Message-ID: <109@autodesk.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 90 02:58:07 GMT
Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito, CA
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The situation:
Wanting to call C++ routines from C code, we declare
pointers to Classes as 

	void *classptr.

This seems correct and portable.

However, s	ome C++ processors translate this to char * or even short *.

What's a body to do?