From: nikki AT kki DOT net DOT pl (Inquisitor Nikodemus)
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Subject: GCC and pointers : QUESTION
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 13:13:37 GMT
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Hey!


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 ?


/greetz
Nikki