Re: Function Prototypes: Don't they force casts?

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From: John F Carr
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:38

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In article <24914@dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek@horse.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
>... will fail on machines on which function pointers
>appear negative after conversion to int.  (I have a fuzzy memory that
>suggests this may have been the case on some Elxsi machine, for
>instance.)

On a VAX or MIPS, a pointer to a function in the kernel will convert
to a negative integer.  I think Sun OS on a SPARC maps some code at
high addresses (0xff??????) which appear negative.

--
    John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)

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