> In GNU C, addition and subtraction operations are supported on
> pointers to `void' and on pointers to functions. This is done by
> treating the size of a `void' or of a function as 1.
>
> A consequence of this is that `sizeof' is also allowed on `void' and
> on function types, and returns 1.
>
> The option `-Wpointer-arith' requests a warning if these extensions
> are used.
>
> It occurs to me that we ought to add -Wpointer-arith to our standard
> gcc options, so that this sort of mistake will be caught sooner in
> future.
I added this to my Makefile.custom.
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