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Re: void * not handled in AIX C compiler ?

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From: Greg Comeau
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1989 22:30
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In article <159@eliza.edvvie.at> johnny@edvvie.at (Johann Schweigl) writes:
>AIX C... Declaring a variable as void * does not work. The effect is the same
>as if the variable had never been defined. Example:
>	main() { void *foo; int bar; foo = &bar;}
>results in:
>
>"foo.c", line 6: foo undefined
>"foo.c", line 6: warning: illegal combination of pointer and integer, op =
>
>which is not quite correct.

You do not appear to be wrong.  Although the warning is approopriate,
the error is not.
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From: comeau@utoday.UUCP (Greg Comeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt,comp.unix.aix,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: void * not handled in AIX C compiler ?
Keywords: AIX C ANSI
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Date: 3 Oct 89 22:30:02 GMT
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