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Message ID 20201001150638.102544-2-colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com
State Not applicable
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Series Document void * |

Commit Message

Alejandro Colomar Oct. 1, 2020, 3:06 p.m. UTC 
  Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
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 man7/system_data_types.7 | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/man7/system_data_types.7 b/man7/system_data_types.7
index e42cf2557..f10f12754 100644
--- a/man7/system_data_types.7
+++ b/man7/system_data_types.7
@@ -679,7 +679,6 @@  See also the
 .I uintptr_t
 and
 .I void *
-.\" TODO: Document void *
 types in this page.
 .RE
 .\"------------------------------------- lconv ------------------------/
@@ -1781,7 +1780,6 @@  See also the
 .I intptr_t
 and
 .I void *
-.\" TODO: Document void *
 types in this page.
 .RE
 .\"------------------------------------- va_list ----------------------/
@@ -1815,6 +1813,46 @@  See also:
 .BR va_copy (3),
 .BR va_end (3)
 .RE
+.\"------------------------------------- void * -----------------------/
+.TP
+.I void *
+.RS
+According to the C language standard,
+a pointer to any object type may be converted to a pointer to
+.I void
+and back.
+POSIX further requires that any pointer,
+including pointers to functions,
+may be converted to a pointer to
+.I void
+and back.
+.PP
+Conversions from and to any other pointer type are done implicitly,
+not requiring casts at all.
+.PP
+The conversion specifier for
+.I void *
+for the
+.BR printf (3)
+and the
+.BR scanf (3)
+families of functions is
+.BR p ;
+resulting commonly in
+.B %p
+for printing
+.I void *
+values.
+.PP
+Conforming to:
+C99 and later; POSIX.1-2001 and later.
+.PP
+See also the
+.I intptr_t
+and
+.I uintptr_t
+types in this page.
+.RE
 .\"--------------------------------------------------------------------/
 .SH NOTES
 The structures described in this manual page shall contain,