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Re: making sizeof(void*) different from sizeof(void(*)())

On 4/29/2012 12:47 PM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:

My biased point of view is that designing a processor instruction set (for POSIX-like
systems or standard C software in mind) with function pointers of different size than
data pointers is today a mistake: most software make the implicit assumption that all
pointers have the same size.


What's your data for "most" here? I would have guessed that most
software doesn't care.

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