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From: berg@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg)
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Subject: Re: increment casted void pointer  --  ANSI?
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Date: 13 Mar 91 13:56:07 GMT
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Stanley Friesen writes:
>To pretend a variable has a different type utter the following magic
>incantations:

>b = *++ *(char **)&p;

Nice.  Could be usefull to know this (some time).  But, in my original
application (not the example I showed, it was a library replacement of
memmove) I use register void pointers, to which the above trick cannot
be applied (sigh).
--
Sincerely,                 berg@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de
           Stephen R. van den Berg.
"I code it in 5 min, optimize it in 90 min, because it's so well optimized:
it runs in only 5 min.  Actually, most of the time I optimize programs."