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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: %p and different pointer representations
Message-ID: <9730@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 26 Feb 89 09:05:08 GMT
References: <9382@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <234@mstan.Morgan.COM> <591@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <591@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG> mark@jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) writes:
>The pANS says that a void pointer is large enough to handle any 
>pointer type ...

No, only any pointer to an incomplete or object type.
A function pointer may well not fit into a void*.