Re: bug in visual studio .net 2003 - breakpoints and memcpy

According to ANSI C and standard C++, there is no standard conversion from a
function pointer to void*, and vice versa. It's just not listed among the
possible conversions. A function pointer can be converted to an integer of
an appropriate size, though, which you may (or may not) be able then convert
to a void* (the size of the necessary integer may be different from the
required void* size).

"Eugene Gershnik" <gershnik@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Alexander Grigoriev wrote:
>>
>> BTW, converting a function pointer to void * is illegal in C and C++.
>
> Not illegal, just undefined. Which means that an implementation is free to
> define it if it wants so. Both Win32 and Posix define the conversion.
>
>
> --
> Eugene
> http://www.gershnik.com
>
>


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