Hi, one of the first thing I noticed compiling in plan9 is that arithmetic on void* is illegal. Other compilers treat void* as uchar*. Conceptually, it makes sense. A pointer to void doesn't point to any object. But then I've seen the use of void* in functions (like memccpy) when the pointed object is going to be processed as a byte array. Local uchar*'s are used to do the trick inside the function.
It wouldn't make more sense to avoid the use of void* and just use instead uchar* or better still u8int*? Some thoughts? Regards, adr. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tecaea3b9ec8e7066-M7d5d7a58e7e77b74d2aa123a Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
