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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Why no arithmetic on void *
Message-ID: <14950@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 23 Jan 91 23:45:38 GMT
References: <1238@dkunix9.dk.oracle.com> <561@taumet.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <561@taumet.com> steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) writes:
>Void* was an invention of the Committee to cover the case of "pointer to
>something of unknown type".

I would rather say, "pointer to object of irrelevant type".