Hacker News Reader

Yup, these are just pointers, usage is still the same, and no cast/special functions are needed to manipulate them.

Well... you cannot call free on them, unless I'm mistaken. But other than that it's as normal.

(This could be a problem if you want to call library code that frees a supplied pointer)

Ah, yes, good point. Great care should be taken for these cases to not happen.