Is storing a function pointer in a void *variable kosher with the ANSI C
specification? I have had people tell me that this is forbidden by ANSI, but
compilers seem to accept it.

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 --- Dale King

No.  There is no requirement that a void* be large enough to hold
a function pointer and there are compilers in which it will not.
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Michael M Rubenstein

 No, it's treif :)

   void * is guaranteed to hold any pointer to _object_ type.
On the other hand all function poiner do have the same representation,
so you can arbitrarily choose any one of them as a generic function
pointer (but, unfortunately, you must explicitely cast to/from it).

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