Structure pointer question

[Andrew Scott]

In article <424 at proxftl.UUCP>, bill at proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
> In article <391 at teletron.UUCP>, andrew at teletron.UUCP (Andrew Scott) writes:

[ about an idea I had to use incomplete structure definitions as generic data
  structures ]

> The correct solution is to have your library deal with void *.
> If a raw void * bothers you, use typedef void *MESSAGE; and then
> type everything as MESSAGE.

Indeed, I have been informed that this is the only truly portable way of doing
things.  HOWEVER, I do not have a compiler that supports "void *" at the
moment, and I cannot stand seeing lint all hot and bothered about casts to
and from "char *".  :-)

Terrible reasons, I know, but it does look "cleaner" than using void * (to me,
at least) and I think it *would* be portable if all pointers to structures
had the same format.
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