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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pointer and integer addition
Message-ID: <15631@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 30 Mar 91 13:53:43 GMT
References: <8334@umd5.umd.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <8334@umd5.umd.edu> dzoey@terminus.umd.edu (Joe Herman) writes:
>fooptr = (char *) fooptr + fooptr->recsize;

This (almost) should have worked.  You also need to convert back to
the proper pointer type before the assignment:

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