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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


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