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Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam”

From Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam”
Date 2023-10-11 07:56 -0700
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
>
>> On 10/8/23 18:31, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>
>>> Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> writes:

[..converting a void* to a pointer to function..]

>>>> It mayn't be supported in standard C, but it's a common
>>>> extension?in fact, POSIX _requires_ it in order for the dlsym
>>>> subroutine to work.
>>>
>>> The POSIX requirement is limited to values returned by dlsym().
>>>
>>> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dlsym.html
>>
>> I've heard that before, and it might be true - but I don't see
>> words to that effect on that page.  It says:
>>
>> "Note that conversion from a void * pointer to a function pointer
>> as in:
>>
>> fptr = (int (*)(int))dlsym(handle, "my_function");
>>
>> is not defined by the ISO C standard.  This standard requires
>> this conversion to work correctly on conforming implementations."
>>
>> As I read it, that requires that the conversion work in general -
>> it says nothing about it working only for values returned by
>> dlsym.
>
> I'd say it's ambiguous.  One could argue that "this conversion" refers
> to converting the result of a call to dlsym().

Right.  The "this conversion" might be intended or construed to
refer to "conversion from a void * pointer to a function pointer"
or to the conversion in 'int (*)(int))dlsym([...])'.  That's how
English works.  A good editor who is paying attention would flag
it as an ambiguity.

> And if I were trying to create a POSIX-conforming implementation
> on a system where function pointers cannot in general be converted
> to void* and back again, I'd argue exactly that.  (Imagine, for
> example, a system where function pointers are 128 bits and object
> pointers, including void*, are 64 bits, but the implementation can
> arrange for functions whose addresses might be returned by dlsym()
> to have all zeros in their high-order 64 bits.)

Requiring all function pointers to be convertible to and from a
'void *' pointer seems overly limiting, I agree.

> I *think* the wording was changed at some point, and that an
> earlier version of POSIX required all function pointers to be
> convertible to void*, but I can't find a reference.
> (opengroup.org has links to older versions of POSIX from 2008,
> 2013, and 2016, but when I search for "dlsym" in any of them it
> takes me to the current version.)

In the 2004 edition, this page

  https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604499/functions/dlsym.html

has this sentence

    Implementations supporting the XSI extension, however, do
    require that an object of type void * can hold a pointer to a
    function.

and this sentence

    Due to the problem noted here, a future version may either
    add a new function to return function pointers, or the
    current interface may be deprecated in favor of two new
    functions:  one that returns data pointers and the other that
    returns function pointers.

No conclusions, I was thinking mainly that the link might be of
some value or interest.

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  Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2023-10-05 15:57 -0700
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