[ also for the archives' sake ]
On 27 March 2012 22:05, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Well, testing function pointers for null is certainly OK --- note that
> all our hook function call sites do that. It's true that testing for
> equality to a particular function's name can fail on some platforms
> because of jump table hacks.
I was actually talking about stylistic iffiness. This seems contrary
to the standard, which states:
(ISO C 99 section 6.5.9.6) "Two pointers compare equal if and only if both are null pointers, both are pointers to
thesame object (...) or function, both are pointers to one past the last element of the same array object, or one
isa pointer to one past the end of one array object and the other is a pointer to the start of a different array
objectthat happens to immediately follow the first array object in the address space."
However, the fly in the ointment is IA-64 (Itanic), which apparently
at least at one stage had broken function pointer comparisons, at
least when code was built using some version(s) of GCC.
I found it a bit difficult to square your contention that performing
function pointer comparisons against function addresses was what
sounded like undefined behaviour, and yet neither GCC nor Clang
complained. However, in light of what I've learned about IA-64, I can
certainly see why we as a project would avoid the practice.
Source: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-06/msg01283.html
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