Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Bug in new K&R? Message-ID: <1988May8.030225.18105@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <44200009@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> Date: Sun, 8 May 88 03:02:25 GMT > Are those two casts portable---is it guaranteed that "void *" and > "char *" have the same internal representation? ... Yes. X3J11 decided to require this. If for no other reason, because making them different will break thousands of old programs that pass "char *" to library functions that are now officially defined to take parameters of type "void *". -- NASA is to spaceflight as | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology the Post Office is to mail. | {ihnp4,decvax,uunet!mnetor}!utzoo!henry