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From: kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer)
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Subject: Re: malloc()
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Date: Thu, 15-May-86 23:49:39 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 15 23:49:39 1986
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In article <479@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> cit-vax!jon writes:
>    I don't think 'void *' is useless. What do you  do	on  a  machine
>where it's NOT 'always legal to cast any pointer into a "char *"'?

You get a compiler that works.  The proposed property of "void *" is
already guaranteed for "char *".  (Sorry, no K&R handy, can't quote it.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ihnp4!bentley!kwh), The Walking Lint