Bug in new K&R?

[Henry Spencer]

> Are those two casts portable---is it guaranteed that "void *" and
> "char *" have the same internal representation? ...

Yes.  X3J11 decided to require this.  If for no other reason, because
making them different will break thousands of old programs that pass
"char *" to library functions that are now officially defined to take
parameters of type "void *".
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