(970929) reinterpret cast bug

[Alexandre Oliva]

Jason Merrill writes:

>>>>>> Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.edu> writes:
>> egcs snapshots don't like casting from "void *" to function pointers 
>> even with the old sledgehammer namely reinterpret_cast

> Yep; the standard only allows for casting between function pointers, or
> between object pointers.  I assume this is to allow for targets where
> addresses of code and data have different representations.  No reason why
> we can't allow it without -pedantic in g++, I suppose.  Contributions
> welcome.

How hard would it be to check whether a pointer to object has is as
large as a pointer to function, and make it a pedantic warning or not
depending on that?

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Alexandre Oliva
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