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From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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Subject: Re: Standard type for code pointers?
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 08:34:18AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Apr 20, 2005, at 5:41 AM, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> 
> >I'm looking for a standard type that is defined to have at least
> >as many bits as needed to hold a pointer to code.  What would
> >that be?
> 
> intptr_t is probably what you want.

Except that intptr_t need only be large enough to hold an object
pointer.  This is not necessarily enough to hold a function pointer.

The only standard types that are guaranteed to be able to hold a
function pointer are other function pointers.


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