Canonicalization of function pointers

[John David Anglin]

> "John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> writes:
> 
> |> The code snippet below demonstrates a problem in comparing a void *
> |> to a function pointer.  I believe this is a gcc extension and is not
> |> allowed in ISO C.
> 
> Yes, it is even a constraint violation:
> 
> 6.5.9 Equality operators

Yes.  I had read this section prior to sending the message.  Gcc seems
to be following the conversion specified in paragraph 5 but this doesn't
make any sense for function pointers which need canonicalization.

Dave
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