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Re: void

From	Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: void
Date	2016-07-17 22:26 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 22:15:02 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 20:17:58 +0100, Steven Simpson wrote:
> 
>> On 17/07/16 19:36, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>> On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 09:21:05 +0100, Steven Simpson wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 16/07/16 23:49, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>>>> This is unlike C, where a function declared as "void free(void ptr)"
>>>>> means that free() takes an untyped pointer and returns an untyped
>>>>> pointer value.
>>>> Hmm?  You mean "void *free(void *)", surely?
>>>>
>>> The manpage says "void free(void *ptr)".
>> 
>> I was talking about the function you described as taking and returning
>> an "untyped pointer (value)".
> 
> Which I thought free() did.

But was wrong.


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Re: void Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-16 22:49 +0000
  Re: void Steven Simpson <ss@my.domain.invalid> - 2016-07-17 09:21 +0100
    Re: void Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-17 18:36 +0000
      Re: void Steven Simpson <ss@my.domain.invalid> - 2016-07-17 20:17 +0100
        Re: void Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-17 22:15 +0000
          Re: void Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-17 22:26 +0000

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