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In article <4k65h6$dfe@nntp.crl.com>, tmcd@crl.com (Timothy A. McDaniel) writes:
>In article <KANZE.96Apr2171323@slsvgqt.lts.sel.alcatel.de>,
>James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763 <kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de> wrote:
>>The variable is declared, and available for use, as soon as
>>the compiler sees the `=' sign.

>So     void *x = &x;
>would be legal, then, and x would point to itself?

Yes.

>(Or would it have to be     void *x = (void *) &x;    ?)

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.
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