Re: converting function pointers to/from object pointers

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On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 03:53:54PM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 24 August 2015 at 15:49, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > Hello experts,
> >
> > I have some old code, which worked fine with old GCC releases, but
> > fails with current GCC.
> >
> > With current GCC, I get a warning:
> >
> >     "ISO C forbids conversion of function pointer to object pointer type [-Wpedantic]"
> >
> > and the system crashes.
> 
> That warning is not likely to be the reason it crashes.
> 
> You should look at *where* it crashes, and *why*. Is it dereferencing
> an invalid pointer? Is there a misaligned access?

Right.  Also you should use -fno-strict-aliasing since you play non-standard
pointer games.


Segher



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