This is an unofficial snapshot of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG21 Core Issues List revision 114a. See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/ for the official list.
2024-04-18
There does not seem to be any significant technical obstacle to allowing a void* pointer to be dereferenced, and that would avoid having to use weighty circumlocutions when casting to a reference to an object designated by such a pointer.
Rationale (June, 2014):
This request for a language extension should be evaluated by EWG before any action is taken.
EWG 2022-11-11
This is a request for a new feature, which should be proposed in a paper to EWG.