From: pete@versatilecoding.com   
      
   On 2013-01-15 14:04:50 +0000, news said:   
      
   > I avoid C's habit of multiplying all my offsets by the size of   
   > the thing allegedly pointed to because sizeof(void) is 1   
   >   
   > Yesterday my C++ compiler complained about using void* in this way.   
   > Apparently it is no longer legitimate to do address arithmetic on a   
   > pointer to void.   
      
   It has never been legitimate. GNU does it as an extension.   
      
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