(void *) to function pointer

[Ron Guilmette]

In article <1991Jan11.174923.7250 at zoo.toronto.edu> henry at zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
>Yes and no.  The wording of the standard implies, but does not quite
>state explicitly, that there is *some size* of integer that is big enough
>to hold a pointer.  There is no promise that `int' suffices; it might
>have to be `long', or even some nonstandardness like `long long'.

While we are on the subject, I just thought that I would mention a
simple way to drive your typical linker to rant and rave at you:

	void f () { }

	char c = (char) f;
	short s = (short) f;

	int main () { return 0; }


Most linkers cough up some rather interesting messages when confronted
by such programs.

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