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- From: becker@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Jon Becker)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: Initializing a variable in terms of itself
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 14:45:44 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- Message-ID: <4kdt6o$j43@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
- References: <4jpj9l$ik9@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <KANZE.96Apr2171323@slsvgqt.lts.sel.alcatel.de> <4k65h6$dfe@nntp.crl.com> <4kciur$l9l@usenet.pa.dec.com>
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- In article <4kciur$l9l@usenet.pa.dec.com>,
- Norman Diamond <diamond@tbj.dec.com> wrote:
- >
- >There is no difference between your two versions. Conversions either way
- >between a pointer to object type (including a pointer to incomplete type)
- >and a pointer to void are allowed implicitly and are identical to conversions
- >obtained from explicit casts.
- >
-
- I see nothing in the standard which suggests that a pointer to
- incomplete type is included in the category of pointers to object
- type. My impression is that the standard describes these two pointer
- types as entirely distinct.
-
- (Note that this is a different topic than that to which your answer
- refers. I completely agree with your point. I merely take issue with
- the implication of your wording.)
-
- -Jon
-