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From: meissner@rtp47.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: (void *)
Message-ID: <117@rtp47.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 15:48:47 EDT
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Organization: Data General, RTP, NC
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Keywords: ANSI


As one of the originators of void *, let me give you my perspective on it.
It was originally proposed to allow a generic pointer format, such that ANY
pointer's value can be represented without loss of information, such that
when converted back to the SAME pointer, it would give an equivalent pointer.
I would expect that on most implementations the presentation will be the same
as char *.

	Michael Meissner
	Data General Corporation
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