Re: c-stack and Irix - libsigsegv

[Peter Seebach]

In message <address@hidden>, Eric Blake writes:
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>According to Tom G. Christensen on 9/21/2008 2:30 PM:
>> cc-3316 cc: ERROR File = handler-unix.c, Line = 490
>>   The expression must be a pointer to a complete object type.
>> 
>>       ss.ss_sp = extra_stack + extra_stack_size - sizeof (void *);
>>                  ^
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>Yep - gcc allows addition of void*, but many other compilers require an
>explicit cast to char * before you can do pointer math (since C89 leaves
>pointer math on void* undefined).

C99, too, I believe.  The reason being that void is an incomplete type,
and has no size.  The assumption that you want to add byte-sized chunks is
probably not an unreasonable one, and I don't entirely blame gcc for
making that guess, but I am obliged to admit that I've more often been
wrong than right when I ended up trying to add something to a (void *)
pointer.  I actually prefer to just require the explicit cast, which
makes it unambiguous what type I think I'm counting by.

-s