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From: rickc@agora.UUCP (Rick Coates)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Pointer to void (was: function returning pointer to itself)
Message-ID: <1066@agora.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jul 88 15:52:29 GMT
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I did not intend to appeal to authority with my comment about
Microsoft C (_especially_ Microsoft) in my previous posting - it
was just a comment.

I don't have a copy of the dpANSI standard - but I do
have the second edition of K&R. On page 199, they discuss void pointers
with no mention of restrictions about pointer to functions.
(Also a comment - I am _not_ saying that K&R are the authority).

Seems (offhand - I haven't spent years of my life thinking about this
issue) that a void pointer should be for any pointer, not just data.

Can someone elaborate on why ANSI does not allow void pointers for
functions?

Rick Coates

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