Pointer and integer addition

[Stephen R. van den Berg]

In article <15631 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <8334 at umd5.umd.edu> dzoey at terminus.umd.edu (Joe Herman) writes:
>>fooptr = (char *) fooptr + fooptr->recsize;

>This (almost) should have worked.  You also need to convert back to
>the proper pointer type before the assignment:

>	fooptr = (struct foo *) ((char *) fooptr + fooptr->recsize);

No, not needed, the cast is implicit.
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           Stephen R. van den Berg.
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