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Message-ID: <7c55f6cf-8cb1-7b63-30ec-990f8c370bf5@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 2 Oct 2020 10:48:58 +0200
From:   Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@...il.com>
To:     mtk.manpages@...il.com
Cc:     Paul Eggert <eggert@...ucla.edu>, linux-man@...r.kernel.org,
        libc-alpha@...rceware.org, gcc@....gnu.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] system_data_types.7: Add 'void *'

Hi Michael,

On 2020-10-02 10:24, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 2020-10-01 19:32, Paul Eggert wrote:
>  > For 'void *' you should also mention that one cannot use arithmetic on
>  > void * pointers, so they're special in that way too.
> 
> Good suggestion!
> 
>  > Also, you should
>  > warn that because one can convert from any pointer type to void * and
>  > then to any other pointer type, it's a deliberate hole in C's
>  > type-checking.
> 
> Also good.  I'll talk about generic function parameters for this.
I think the patch as is now is complete enough to be added.

So I won't rewrite it for now.
Please review the patch as is,
and I'll add more info to this type in the future.

Thanks,

Alex

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