Re: Something wrong in my program

From: Peter Nilsson (airia_at_acay.com.au)
Date: 01/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:15:55 +1100

"Mark McIntyre" <markmcintyre@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:dvqg0059ur2hpcbhvo542f51edraf27hhk@4ax.com...
> ... void* converts implicitly to any other pointer type.

That's not true in the case of function pointers. Apart from null pointers,
the conversion in such cases is undefined. [C99 J.5.7 notwithstanding.] 

--
Peter

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