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From: c8-rah@zircon.berkeley.edu (CS 8 Readers)
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Subject: Re:  is a void function invocation an expression or a statement?
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Date: Wed, 13-Aug-86 14:27:53 EDT
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Reply-To: c8-rah@zircon.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Max Schireson)
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I think that I agree that void should be a real data type, but 
making sizeof(void) would create problems.  Since sizeof(void) = 0,
sizeof(void[size) = 0 regardless of size.  Since one could declare an
arbitrarily long array of void, sizeof(void *) would have to be infinite,
which does not seem possible.  My proposed solution, which may not be any
good either, is making void a real type, and sizeof(void) equal to the
sizeof a union of char,int,etc. i.e. sizeof(double).

If anyone has a better idea, or a good reason not to make void a real data
type, I would be interested in hearing it.

                                -Max Schireson