Taking address of a built-in function

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From: Roland McGrath
Date: Thu, 25 May 1989 21:01

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If a GCC built-in, such as __builtin_abs, is used in an address context,
rather than a function context, as in:
	int (*foo)(int) = __builtin_abs;
GCC treats this as if it were not a builtin function.

What is should do, I think, is generate a static __builtin_abs function
and use its address.

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