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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 10:39:07 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Pointer to function has a bad value
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"Robboy, David G" <david.g.robboy@intel.com> writes:

|> Is this a known bug or fixed in a later compiler?  Using gcc version
|> 2.9-ia64-000216-final, assigning the address of a function to a pointer
|> gives the wrong value.  In the following program, the address of twiddle=
 is
|> 0x40000000000003f0, but the value of the pointer i is 0x4000000000078300.

This is correct.  The conversion from pointer to integer is implementation
defined, the only requirement is that if the integer type is wide enough
you'll get the same pointer when casting back to the original pointer
type.

Andreas.

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