Bad code for ia64 with function pointer

[Henri-Pierre CHARLES]

Hello,

Le Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 11:38:43AM -0400, Jim Wilson écrivait :
> Your program is broken.  You made assumptions about the form of a function
> pointer which are wrong.
> On IA-64, and some other targets, function pointers are represented
> differently than pointers to objects.  On IA-64, a function pointer is a double
> word descriptor that holds the function address and the function GP value.
> Thus you can't get a valid function pointer by casting a char * pointer to a
> function pointer type.

Oh ! ok, I understand.

So, it's impossible to do this kind of indirect call with C ?

H-P


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