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From: andrew@epc.co.uk (Andrew Higham)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:00:41 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh Portable Compilers
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In article <casper.32afd1f6@mail.fwi.uva.nl>,
	casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:
> 
> But all pointers can be cast to void * and back, right?  So %p can be
> used portably.
> 
> (Yep, I've worked on systems where pointer casts did change the
> bit pattern)
> 
> Casper

To be pedantic: you cannot cast a pointer to function to pointer to void.

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Andrew Higham
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