On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Charles Forsyth <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:charles.forsyth@gmail.com" target="_blank">charles.forsyth@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
instead of trying to make void work as a data type declaration, it might be clearer to accept an empty struct.
</blockquote></div><br>Many compilers do just that, however, that said, unless the compiler is prepared for it, since it effectively yields a struct of zero size which normally is a no-go, it could produce bugs involving sizeof, initializers, pointer addition et al, even some divisions by zero if the compiler is making certain assumptions already, unless it already can have zero length objects of this nature for some other reasons.<br clear="all">
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