Closure of interior and interior of closure in a topological vector space

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If $Y$ is a subset of topological vector space $X$ and is compact and convex show that $\overline{Y^\circ} = \overline{Y}$ and $\overline{Y}^\circ = Y^\circ$.

I tried this way but I am not sure:

$Y$ is compact so $Y = \overline{Y}$. Then it follows that $Y^\circ = (Y)^\circ = (\overline{Y})^\circ$. And for another I stuck so could some help.

One more thing: What happens if $Y$ is not compact and convex the proof is true for this case too.

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Of course, as previously mentioned in the above comments, the condition that $Y^\circ$ is non-empty is needed. In this case $Y$ need not be compact. You can find the proof in Holmes's "Geometric functional analysis ..." book on p. 59.