Do you have to cast void pointers when dereferencing them?

[Henry Spencer]

In article <2414 at ssc-vax.UUCP> dmg at ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) writes:
>...  Under ANSI C, do I HAVE to cast
>my void pointer, or not?

Yes.  Deferencing a void pointer, whether directly via * or [] or more
obscurely via ->, is forbidden.

Many old compilers are quite sloppy about what they accept on the left
of the -> operator, but this has not been legitimate C for quite a while.
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