Re: [ft-devel] Bug on PowerPC: Illegal Intruction in FT_Get_Name_Index (worksforme)

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > You don't get these two with -pedantic?
>
> Yep.  This seems to be a buglet in gcc which has been fixed in later
> versions.

That's weird.  The fact probably is that assigning function
pointers to data pointers is indeed forbidden in ISO C, and
that's all gcc was saying.


Anyway, I think I've found a solution: use a union.  Patch
attached.

[...]
>     Werner

--behdad
http://behdad.org/

freetype2-function-pointer.patch
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