Comparing function pointers

Bruno Haible bruno@clisp.org
Sun Jun 15 17:57:00 GMT 2003


H. J. Lu wrote:

> > He goes on to recommend to avoid comparing function pointers in portable
> > programs.
>
> It should work on ia64. If not, file a bug. It can be a gcc, ld
> and/or ld.so bug.

You are right, it appears to work on ia64-linux. So it was only Andreas Jaeger's
recommendation which was wrong.

OTOH, the bug is there for another CPU, namely for hppa-linux. I've filed a bug:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11197

Bruno



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