From:	Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject:	Re: GCC and pointers : QUESTION
Date:	Wed, 5 Aug 1998 22:54:38 -0300
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Inquisitor Nikodemus wrote:
->During writing a function I noticed that operations - such as addition
->or substraction - on pointers of different types than char didn't
->behave as I expected them to. Eg. adding 2 to the the pointer  :
->  short    *pointer_to_short  ;
->resulted in 4 byte offset,not 2 byte. Same for ints etc.
->So the question is : is it really a fact,that gcc's pointer math
->depends on type rather than raw bytes ?
	That's how it is in all ANSI C++ compilers.
	Endlisnis
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