Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:18:30 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall command.c config.c Message-ID: <20010925170814.I28548-100000@delplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <200109250123.VAA01656@glatton.cnchost.com>
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Bakul Shah wrote: > I never understood the restriction of why a function ptr > can't be cast to void*. It is not like you are going to > create self-modifying functions..... It's because function pointers might be larger than "void *". E.g., on i386's in real mode (or in protected mode using "far" pointers), function pointers might be "far" and "void *" might be "near". > Using %x or %lx for > printing a fn ptr is as wrong as using %p. And to me %p is > likely to be the better choice. All are wrong. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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