In article c6108e81@PC34.scanjour.dk, "Lars Thorup" <lth@scanjour.dk> writes:
>
>My compiler (MSVC++ 4.1) prevents me from declaring variables of type void.
>Is the compiler old-fashioned, or does it follow the draft standard in this
>respect?

No object of type void can be declared in either C or C++. That has always
been the rule in both languages.

The pseudo-type "void" was introduced into C as the way to declare that
a function does not return a value, or to say explicitly that the
value of an expression is being ignored.

Later, the type "pointer to void" was introduced to mean "generic
data pointer". It is invalid to dereference a void* or to attempt
pointer arithmetic with a void*. A void* does not point to a void
object, because there is no such thing in C or C++.
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Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com
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