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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Sort char array
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 11:47:46 -0700
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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 08/10/2019 00:27, Anton Shepelev wrote:
>> If it is a hardware-abstract, high-level language, then why
>> do you need such conversion?  Surely you do not write to, or
>> perform address arithmetics on function pointers, nor do you
>> invoke memory blocks?
>
> No but you sometimes want a generic function pointer type, and the void* 
> type ('ref void' in my language) suits that.

Of course you already know how to implement a generic function pointer
type in valid and portable C, because I've explained it to you before.

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void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */