I have read that converting a function pointer to a data pointer and vice versa works on most platforms but is not guaranteed to work. Why is this the case? Shouldn’t both be simply addresses into main memory and therefore be compatible?
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I have read that converting a function pointer to a data pointer and vice versa works on most platforms but is not guaranteed to work. Why is this the case? Shouldn’t both be simply addresses into main memory and therefore be compatible?
An architecture doesn’t have to store code and data in the same memory. With a Harvard architecture, code and data are stored in completely different memory. Most architectures are Von Neumann architectures with code and data in the same memory but C doesn’t limit itself to only certain types of architectures if at all possible.