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Date:      Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:12:10 +0200
From:      Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>
To:        Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-standards@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Standard type for code pointers?
Message-ID:  <20050420141210.GA1271@schweikhardt.net>
In-Reply-To: <84dead720504200541539f4c15@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <84dead720504200541539f4c15@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:41:17PM +0000, Joseph Koshy wrote:
# I'm looking for a standard type that is defined to have at least 
# as many bits as needed to hold a pointer to code.  What would 
# that be?

Any function pointer. All pointers to functions are
assignment-compatible, but when dereferenced must call a function of the
declared type, otherwise the behavior is undefined.

Regards,

	Jens
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