C's triadic operator.

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <26212 at watmath.waterloo.edu> rbutterworth at watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth) writes:
>Does that seem obvious, reasonable, or useful to anyone out there?
>The Rationale gives no justification for this behaviour.

How about:  It is always possible to validly convert a pointer of any type
to a void*.  The other direction is not always valid.

>Not only that, as far as I know, the compiler is not even
>allowed to issue any warnings about how stupid this request is.

Conforming compilers may issue warnings about anything they wish.