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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Interfaces.C and void *
Date: 1999/09/22
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Recently, I wrote a binding for a C library which provides an abstract
data type and completely hides the underlying representation of the type
(i.e., all the public routines work on pointers to void).

Is there really no portable equivalent of a C void * in Interfaces.C?
I used Interfaces.C.Strings.chars_ptr, which should be quite portable in
practice, but AFAIK, ISO C doesn't require the representation of void *
and char * to be identical.