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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: Representation question (void *)
Date: 1999/11/16
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Lipscomb, Kevin <KLipscomb@C2CEN.USCG.mil> wrote in message
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> How would one represent the following C declaration in Ada 95?
>
>    void *data;
>
> Is this just a placeholder for a pointer that should never be referenced?
>
No. A variable or function argument of type pointer to void means it can be
a pointer to an object of any type -- maybe the ultimate in type unsafeness.

As the return type of a function void (without the asterisk) means
a function that returns nothing -- the c equivalent of an Ada procedure.

void *some_function_name means that like the variable or function argument
case, the value returned by the function can point to any type of data.