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Article #2002Re: legality of assignment of function to a void *.
From: Stephen Clamage
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 1990 00:53
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 1990 00:53
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blodgett@apollo.HP.COM (Bruce Blodgett) writes: >Was it really the intent of the ANSI C committee not to allow void >pointers from holding uncasted function addresses (in either >conforming or strictly conforming programs)? Yes. On some implementations it may not be possible (or at least not reasonable) to cast a function pointer to a void*. For a simple example, consider a program on a PC in large-code-small-data model. A function pointer is then 32 bits, but a void* is 16 bits. One purpose of the standard is to explain what programs can be run safely on all conforming implementations. -- Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!jarthur!uunet!taumet!steve From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: legality of assignment of function to a void *. Message-ID: <520@taumet.com> Date: 18 Nov 90 00:53:36 GMT References: <1990Nov12.211511.2344@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1990Nov13.174920.2235@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Nov14.031125.14027@athena.mit.edu> <4e0cac89.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego Lines: 15