------- Comment #2 from falk at debian dot org 2006-04-25 12:19 ------- It's a valid C++ fragment. However, this code accesses "ptr", which is of type void*, via an lvalue of type U16*. This is undefined behavior, so there is no gcc bug here.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27306
