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This would probably cause a compiler error....
But assuming it doesn't the context is
p_ch =
the bits above... the code declaring p_ch isn't shown but I'm guessing that the value here is actuality a pointer to a pointer so nothing illegal would be happening.Lastly... C++ is really lacking in guarantees so you can assign a char to the first byte of an integer - C++ doesn't generally care what you do unless you go out of bounds.
The reason I'm casting to void* is just pure comedy.