Re: Function pointer casting

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From: MW Ron
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 13:41

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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).

This is not legal implicitly or explicitly but we allow the explicit 
cast because this is common for legacy code.  

Ron

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