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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Question about function pointers & prototypes
Message-ID: <1989Aug28.174441.24540@twwells.com>
Date: 28 Aug 89 17:44:41 GMT
References: <1611@agora.UUCP> <19278@mimsy.UUCP> <10835@smoke.BRL.MIL>
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In article <10835@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
: In article <19278@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
: >The proposed standard seems (meaning `you should check this yourself')
: >to require that all function pointers `fit' in some other function pointer
: >storage cell.
:
: I don't recall any constraints that would imply this.  Pointers to
: functions are far less "flexible" than object pointers.

One can cast any function pointer to another and back again, and use
the result. I've buried my dpANS so I can't quote chapter and verse
but this was discussed a while ago here.

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