erik quanstrom wrote: > assuming that pointers to incomplete types are > themselves incomplete, and you haven't cited > chapter and verse showing they are, i read that paragraph > as saying that what plan 9 libraries do would be > illegal, and therefore if we follow the standard, > we'd need to remove Incomplete*s and replace > them with void*s. > > if i'm wrong, can you explain how?
> The void type comprises an empty set of values; it is an incomplete type that cannot be completed. if a pointer to an incomplete type is incomplete, then void* is incomplete, too. as far as i can tell, the standard would allow an implementation where pointers vary in size and the sizes of pointers can't be determined at compile-time, but that would be insane.
