From: fred AT genesis DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Lawrence Kirby)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Casting void pointers
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 98 12:25:52 GMT
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In article <358F53FE DOT 4D97 AT rug DOT ac DOT be>
           Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be "Vik Heyndrickx" writes:

>Todd Rowan wrote:
>> 
>> How do you explicity cast a void pointer to a function pointer? Or do you
>> even need to cast void pointers manually?
>
>To be able to cast a function pointer to a void pointer is a DJGPP
>extension to the C language. It is not standard available in all C
>implementations or on all platforms. Please consider that when using it!

Indeed any compiler that accepts this without a disgnostic is not a C
compiler. (By default DJGPP is not a C compiler, it compiles a closely related
but different language sometimes referred to as GNU C.)

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