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From: lamont@uts.amdahl.com (Duane Richard LaMont)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pointer and integer addition
Message-ID: <2exJ01IE4dDY00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 30 Mar 91 03:15:58 GMT
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Reply-To: lamont@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Duane Richard LaMont)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <8334@umd5.umd.edu> dzoey@terminus.umd.edu (Joe Herman) writes:
>Next, I tried
>
>fooptr = (char *) fooptr + fooptr->recsize;
>
>No difference, so I guess it gets the value to multiply the increment from
>the lvalue.

You were definitely on the right track, try:

    (char *) fooptr += fooptr->recsize;


Rick LaMont