Re: [GD-General] Offset a void pointer

[Staffan L. <sta...@gb...>]

> I don't think so. I think it's more that they're catching up with iso
> c++ 99 standard, as most compilers, including MS ones, do. In fact,
> that change happened at the same time they rewrote their c++ parser
> from scratch to attain better standard conformance.
> They refer is as "cast-to-lvalue *extension*", which imo imply that
> it's not part of the standard.

None of the constructs in this thread have been using the "cast-as-lvalue 
extension" of GCC. The extension is transparently converting an rvalue to an 
lvalue. That's why the example,

char *p;
((int *) p)++;

compiles. The cast (int*) should result in an rvalue, hence applying the 
post inc. operator shouldn't be legal. There is no rule that explicitly 
prohibits casting an lvalue of one type to an lvalue of another type.

But I agree that (char*&)BufferPtr+=stride looks unintuitive.

Staffan