From: "Bart Alewijnse" <scarfman AT geocities DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Dereferencing a void pointer
Date: 23 Jun 1999 22:02:41 GMT
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I have a struct with a 'void *data' member, of which the type I assign when
I
judge what data goes in it. The compiler yaks at me when I try to offset it
like:

 to->data[offset]=0;

which is of course correct. My guess is since I if my way into assigning
the
type, this is no assurance it gets assigned at all. While I catch this for
myself
with IF to->data==NULL 's and retruns, gcc isn't happy with it. However, I
know
that there IS data, what size, and all that, and I like to access it on a
byte (or
any) level.
 I probably want to cast my way into solving this. But how?

-Bart