Assignment to pointers to functions returning void

[Phil Karn]

By wild coincidence, after hundreds of net.lang.c articles with esoteric
and/or uninteresting problems, I see two in a row that I've just
encountered.

I haven't gotten any compiler error messages when assigning the address
of a function which retuns null to a pointer of that type, but lint does
complain bitterly.  Some lints (such as the System V) have this fixed.
I just put up with the noise. If you don't like that, a temporary fix
of the form

#define void int

will quiet things down until you get a fixed lint.

I too was looking for a clean way to declare a pointer to the end of a
structure within a structure, but I think you can get the effect you
want with a little simple pointer arithmetic and casting:

struct foo {
	int retch;
	int bletch;
};

struct foo *foop;
char *charp;

foop = (struct foo *)malloc(100);
charp = (char *)(foop + 1);

--Phil