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Allow void* pointer arithmetic with sizeof#225

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@sauyon sauyon commented Sep 24, 2018

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Since void is generally considered a 1-byte type when doing pointer arithmetic, these results are usually false positives.

Technically this isn't allowed by the C spec, but it's been seen in the wild:
see https://lgtm.com/projects/g/libcsp/libcsp/snapshot/3763c7b3380f95c81636de5c95156fd3ef151a21/files/src/csp_buffer.c\#x1d04047d2bb68c21:1.

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LGTM. The tests for this query are still internal, so I've created an internal PR to add coverage for this case (https://git.semmle.com/Semmle/code/pull/28047).

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@geoffw0 geoffw0 merged commit 9c219b9 into github:master Sep 25, 2018
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