Re: "PORTING C" > NULL problem!

Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
A void pointer doesn't have any type

This is not true formally, and I don't think it's useful to think this way informally either:
6.2.5p19 The void type comprises an empty set of values; it is an incomplete type that cannot be completed.

The type of a void pointer is, of course, void*.
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