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On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 04:29:46PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Stefano Facchetti wrote on 23 July 2008 16:17:
>
>> How specify in FAQ 6.16 I try to compile this code:
>> 
>> ...
>>  HMODULE h = LoadLibrary("cygwin1.dll");
>>  void (*init)() = GetProcAddress(h, "cygwin_dll_init");
>>  init();
>> ...
>> 
>> The compiler give my the following error:
>> 
>> festivalDll.cc: In function `void festival_init()':
>> festivalDll.cc:18: error: invalid conversion from `int (*)()' to `void
>> (*)()'
>> 
>> How can I do..?
>
>  GetProcAddress returns all function pointers as if they were of type 'int
>(*)()', because it has to return a pointer to some kind of function, but it
>can't know what actual prototype the function has, so it uses the simplest.
>
>  In your program, where you /know/ the actual type of the function, you
>need to cast the result returned from GPA:
>
>  void (*init)() = (void (*)()) GetProcAddress(h, "cygwin_dll_init");

...and this really isn't a Cygwin problem.  It's a combination Windows
API/C comprehension problem.

cgf

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