From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
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Subject: Re: C++ front end bug
Date: 13 May 1997 04:30:59 GMT
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This may be due to how C++ handles comparisons of pointers. If they don't
point to the same thing, they aren't the same, in the C++ viewpoint.

Given

int aa[]={3,4,5}

aa is a pointer to int, type int *.
&aa is a pointer to a pointer to ints type int ** or maybe to an array,
int (*)[3], if the array is static.

Why this difference would be preserved when it is cast to void *, I don't
know.

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