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Re: Calling functions through a pointer of incorrect type
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 19:14:12 +0000
- Subject: Re: Calling functions through a pointer of incorrect type
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On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Just a sanity check: It is no longer acceptable glibc coding style to
> call functions through mismatching pointer types. Correct?
I think more specific examples would help so we can see if there are
cleaner approaches that generate the same code. (For example, it's
deliberate that in some places functions with incompatible C types but
compatible ABIs are aliased to each other.)
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com