FreeTDS Development Group

["Craig A. Berry" <craigberry AT mac.com>]

On Oct 10, 2013, at 7:57 PM, James K. Lowden <jklowden AT freetds.org> wrote:

> Pointer arithmetic on void* is invalid for the perfectly good reason
> that the void type has no size.  

Indeed.

> The choice between redefining the pointer to char* or casting void* to
> char* is one of convenience.  If your one-liner makes the compiler
> happy, I'd say that's most convenient.  

Seems to to the trick and causes no new test failures here.

> Thanks for pointing it out.  I'm surprised it hasn't cropped up
> before. 

FWIW, clang and gcc can be made to complain about the same thing by adding 
-Werror-pointer-arith to CFLAGS.

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