From: jmccarty AT sun1307 DOT spd DOT dsccc DOT com (Mike McCarty)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Casting void pointers
Date: 22 Jun 1998 22:42:32 GMT
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In article <6mkaos$k7o AT dfw-ixnews6 DOT ix DOT netcom DOT com>,
Todd Rowan <rowan3 AT ix DOT netcom DOT com_nospam> wrote:
)How do you explicity cast a void pointer to a function pointer? Or do you
)even need to cast void pointers manually?

WARNING! WARNING! DANGER WILL ROBINSON!

Note that void pointers are assignment compatible with DATA pointers of
all types. CODE pointers are not necessarily assignment compatible, and
indeed on some architectures have different physical format and sizes;
function pointers may require MORE STORAGE than data pointers, and hence
not fit in a void pointer.

Mike
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