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Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures

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Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> writes:
> In article <55395FD4.90707@verizon.net>, James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> 
> wrote:
>> > Is it legal/defined-behavior if I cast print_with_brackets to void (*) 
>> > (void*) and pass it as the first argument to print_array, e.g. as in the 
>> > following?
>
>> "A pointer to a function of one type may be converted to a pointer to a
>> function of another type and back again; the result shall compare equal
>> to the original pointer. If a converted pointer is used to call a
>
>> As a practical matter, you can generally count on void* and char* to be
>> interchangeable - but I think you'd be doing better to make sure that
>
> Legal/defined-behaviour has to be in reference to what standard you're using. C? 
> Posix? Microsoft? Windows 95? I write code that's intended for unices (MacOSX 
> and Linux at the moment), and on unices all pointers, including function and 
> data pointers, are identical.

I don't think POSIX guarantees that, though the definition of dlsym()
nearly nearly implies it.

> So you write to your intended customer base.

I prefer to write to the standard when it's practical.  Sometimes
non-portable assumptions can make things easier, but in my experience
that happens less often than some might assume.

-- 
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Casting function pointers to different signatures samuelallenalexander@gmail.com - 2015-04-23 13:39 -0700
  Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-04-23 14:01 -0700
  Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-04-23 17:10 -0400
    Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures samuelallenalexander@gmail.com - 2015-04-23 14:39 -0700
      Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-04-23 18:04 -0400
        Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures samuelallenalexander@gmail.com - 2015-04-23 15:49 -0700
          Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-04-23 19:22 -0400
            Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures samuelallenalexander@gmail.com - 2015-04-24 10:42 -0700
              Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-04-24 14:18 -0400
                Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures samuelallenalexander@gmail.com - 2015-04-24 12:36 -0700
                Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-04-24 15:50 -0400
                Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-04-24 13:18 -0700
    Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-23 16:08 -0700
      Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-04-23 18:36 -0700
        Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-23 19:00 -0700
          Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-04-25 10:48 +0000
      Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-04-25 04:05 -0700
  Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures Lőrinczy Zsigmond <nospam@for.me> - 2015-04-24 06:51 +0200
  Re: Casting function pointers to different signatures Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-04-25 10:57 -0400

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