it's void* because that can be assigned between other pointer types without a cast.

x = malloc(sizeof(*x)); instead of x = (T*)malloc(sizeof(*x)); which just adds clutter.

Similarly it's just free(x) instead of free((void*)x); (or free((uchar*)x) as I understand your suggestion).

On Sun, 15 May 2022 at 11:59, adr <adr@sdf.org> wrote:

Hi,
one of the first thing I noticed compiling in plan9 is that arithmetic
on void* is illegal. Other compilers treat void* as uchar*.
Conceptually, it makes sense. A pointer to void doesn't point to
any object. But then I've seen the use of void* in functions (like
memccpy) when the pointed object is going to be processed as a
byte array. Local uchar*'s are used to do the trick inside the
function.

It wouldn't make more sense to avoid the use of void*
and just use instead uchar* or better still u8int*?

Some thoughts?

Regards,
adr.

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