From: martinfrompi@yahoo.co.uk   
      
   On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 1:06:25 PM UTC, Öö Tiib wrote:   
   > On Wednesday, 15 January 2014 02:36:11 UTC+2, Martin Bonner  wrote:   
   > > Nit:  In C++ that would have to be written as:   
   > >      void *p = static_cast(&p);   
   >   
   > If it is some new draft of C++ then please specify.   
      
   Good catch.  I had got confused with the fact that   
      void *p = NULL;   
      char *cp = p;   
   is legal C but not C++.   
      
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   is to post it; false statements will be corrected rapidly.)   
      
   > If you just made  mistake,   
   Yup   
   > then there are nice tools for testing your claims:   
   > http://ideone.com/SQH3yu   
      
   [fx: wrinkles nose]   
   That shows what the implementation accepts.  It doesn't prove anything   
   about what the standard says.   
      
      
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