Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!crackers!m2c!umvlsi!dime!dime.cs.umass.edu!moss From: moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: Void* Problem in BT Message-ID: Date: 7 Feb 91 23:20:45 GMT References: <43818@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <2359@inews.intel.com> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst) Lines: 13 In-reply-to: bhoughto@hopi.intel.com's message of 7 Feb 91 17:40:28 GMT Just an additional point -- there are compilers out there that understand void as, for example, the result type of a function, but do not understand (void *) properly. This might well be your situation. One compiler I know of that does/did not implement void * is the MIPSco compiler, at least in earlier releases (maybe fixed by now). Eliot -- J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Science Lederle Graduate Research Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-4206, 545-1249 (fax); Moss@cs.umass.edu