From: "Michel Gallant" <mgallant AT NOSPAM DOT grassroots DOT ns DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: GCC and pointers : QUESTION
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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:44:17 GMT
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Inquisitor Nikodemus wrote in message
<35bf1ff4 DOT 1246159 AT news DOT icm DOT edu DOT pl>...
>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

Sure looks like it.  It appears to be performing referencing
calculations based on variable type.  Try it with long or short ints
and see what happens.

Michel Gallant