Re: PATCH: Errors compiling on HP-UX with HP's compiler

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2010-12-20 06:00:37 +0000, Paul Ackersviller wrote:
> I must be using gcc more often than not to have just run across this.
> HP's compiler, I think rightly, refuses to do arithmetic on these two
> void pointers.  Does gcc treat them as char * for that purpose?

This is a well-known GCC extension:

5.21 Arithmetic on `void'- and Function-Pointers
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In GNU C, addition and subtraction operations are supported on pointers
to `void' and on pointers to functions.  This is done by treating the
size of a `void' or of a function as 1.

 A consequence of this is that `sizeof' is also allowed on `void' and
on function types, and returns 1.

 The option `-Wpointer-arith' requests a warning if these extensions
are used.

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