Re: Function pointer casting

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From: MW Ron
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 12:50

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In article <3ED6734A.6080600@lgl.kos.net>,
 Edward Chew <ekc-noreply@lgl.kos.net> wrote:

>After upgrading to CW 8, I notice the compiler no longer allows implicit 
>casting from function pointers (e.g. "int (*)()") to void*.  Is this a 
>bug or some weird C/C++ standards compliance thing?  For now, it seems 
>happy if I write static_cast<void*>(fn).

These type of conversions are illegal, actually even the explicit
conversion is illegal.   However it seems to be common practice to do 
this so we allowed the explicit casts for legacy code.

Ron

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