On 05/20/2010 02:18 PM, Peter Dimov wrote: >> On 05/20/2010 01:55 PM, Paolo Carlini wrote: >>> It's uglier because the code above doesn't work for functions, >>> >> By the way, do you have a specific testcase in mind? >> >> Because addressof_fn_test.cpp, part of Boost, passes... > > This is probably a g++/gcc extension... some compilers do not allow > references to functions to be casted to char&, and I believe the > standard doesn't permit that, either. I see. I'm a bit reluctant to add complexity to the code, given that current Comeau and Intel, at least, in strict-mode, also like it...
Paolo.
