legality of assignment of function to a void *.

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From: Mike Lijewski
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 1990 21:15

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Is a standard conforming compiler required to issue an error
diagnostic for the following code.  Thanks.

#include <stdio.h>

double f(double x) { return x * x; }

int main(void)
{
   void *ptr = f;
   return 0;
}

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