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Subject: void * and pointers to functions
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Date: 25 Jul 90 21:32:57 GMT
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It is my understanding of K&R I C that a variable of type char * may only
contain a pointer to a data object, and that assigning a pointer to a
function to such a variable is not guaranteed to work since there is no
requirement that pointers to objects be the same size as pointers to
functions.

After reading the relevant parts of K&R II it would appear that a variable of
type void * may legally contain a pointer to a function as well as a
pointer to any of the various data types. Is this correct?

-- 
Jim Robinson
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