Recasting to a pointer to a function.

[Aryeh M. Weiss]

In article <1991Mar14.155825.31 at edwards-saftd-2.af.mil> elston at edwards-saftd-2.af.mil writes:
>We are trying to assign to a pointer to a function the value stored in a
>long (which on our system is the same size.)  We would like to recast the long
>into a function pointer.  Is there any method for doing this in 'C'?
>We tried the following

The ``proper'' way is not to do it at all, but rewrite your app into
a portable form, or to use a union like
	union { long x; (int *p)(); } temp;
but you already know that.

The correct form of the cast is

	dbp = (int (*)()) lvar;