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From: jmbj@grebyn.com (Jim Bittman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Assignment of void pointer variable
Keywords: Can I do it in one step?
Message-ID: <19390@grebyn.com>
Date: 17 Feb 90 22:15:36 GMT
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing, Vienna, VA
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I am a newcomer to C programming, but I always thought C was MORE
flexible in the handling of variables and pointers than pascal.
I can make an assignment to an unspecified pointer type in pascal in one
step as follows:
var
   varptr : array[0..9] of pointer;
   myint : integer;
begin
   myint := integer(varptr[5]^);
end.
This works in C, but I'd like to combine the last two lines...
  void *varptr[10];
  int  *intptr;
  int  myint;
  intptr = varptr[5]; 
  myint = *intptr;
Goal:  myint = (int) *varptr[5];  /* doesn't work, it's what I want! */
Post or mail suggestions, Thanks for the help!
Jim Bittman
jmbj@grebyn.com