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From: Zefram <zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
To: monnier+/news/lists/zsh/workers@TEQUILA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU
	(Stefan Monnier)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Z Shell workers mailing list)
Subject: Re: modules!??
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 12:49:22 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <680.199706081149@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5l7mg6tcrg.fsf@tequila.systemsz.cs.yale.edu> from "Stefan Monnier" at Jun 7, 97 03:48:51 pm

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>IIRC, the ANSI C standard allows different sizes for different kinds of
>pointers but requires that void* is big enough to hold any pointer (so that
>casting to void* and back is a safe operation). So it's not just the dlsym
>interface.

That's only for data pointers.  Function pointers are not guaranteed to be
losslessly convertible to void *, nor vice versa.  Function pointer types
are all guaranteed to be losslessly convertible to each other, however.

-zefram


  reply	other threads:[~1997-06-08 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-06-05  1:35 modules!?? Wez Furlong
1997-06-05  5:45 ` modules!?? Zoltan Hidvegi
1997-06-05 17:33   ` modules!?? Zefram
1997-06-05 18:24     ` modules!?? Zoltan T. Hidvegi
1997-06-05 19:11       ` modules!?? Zefram
1997-06-05 19:22         ` modules!?? Zoltan T. Hidvegi
1997-06-05 19:46         ` modules!?? Zoltan T. Hidvegi
1997-06-07 19:48         ` modules!?? Stefan Monnier
1997-06-08 11:49           ` Zefram [this message]
1997-06-05 12:33 modules!?? Wez Furlong
1997-06-05 14:17 ` modules!?? Peter Stephenson

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