Re: making sizeof(void*) different from sizeof(void(*)())

[Robert Dewar]

On 4/29/2012 9:25 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:

Robert Dewar<de...@adacore.com>  writes:

Just to be clear, there is nothing in the standard that forbids the
sizes being different AFAIK? I understand that both gcc and apps
may make unwarranted assumptions.

POSIX makes that assumption, via the dlsym interface.

that's most unfortunate, I wonder why this assumption was ever
allowed to creep into the POSIX interface. I wonder if it was
deliberate, or accidental?

Andreas.