Hi Seth,

On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 04:40:37PM +1000, Seth McDonald wrote:
> From: Seth McDonald <sethmcmail@pm.me>
> 
> The void pointer (void*) type first appeared in POSIX.1-1990 as a
> parameter type in the read(2) function.[1]
> 
> [1] IEEE Std 1003.1-1990, Section 6.4.1 "Read from a File".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Seth McDonald <sethmcmail@pm.me>

I think 'void*' is important enough that it would be useful to dig in
its history further.  Was it an invention of C89?  Or was it an
extension in some existing compilers?  If the latter, it would be
interesting to document which systems had it before C89.

I'm mentioning this just in case you know.  Feel free to ignore
otherwise.

Anyway, I've applied the patch.  Thanks!


Have a lovely day!
Alex

> ---
>  man/man3type/void.3type | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man3type/void.3type b/man/man3type/void.3type
> index ebbeb4d154e1..9a46f84b1d37 100644
> --- a/man/man3type/void.3type
> +++ b/man/man3type/void.3type
> @@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ .SH VERSIONS
>  .SH STANDARDS
>  C11, POSIX.1-2024.
>  .SH HISTORY
> -C89, POSIX.1-2001.
> +C89,
> +POSIX.1-1990.
>  .SH SEE ALSO
>  .BR malloc (3),
>  .BR memcmp (3),
> -- 
> 2.47.3
> 
> 

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