From:	Paul Harness <gapa83 AT udcf DOT gla DOT ac DOT uk>
Subject:	Re: JED and djgpp
To:	wrh AT placer1 DOT wimsey DOT com
Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 1994 10:04:01 +0100 (BST)
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)

> Thanks to all those who responded to my question about the function
> pointers internal to classes.  The solution was:  don't do that.
> I'm still going to try to explicitly cast the 'this' pointer,
> which I had forgotten about.  There just has to be a way, in the end, 
> its just a function address ... Ooh Ick.
> 
Don't try to cast a pointer-to-member to a pointer-to-function, the
result is undefined. The ONLY ways around are to use a static member or
a non-class wrapper function. For more info see Marshall Cline's
excellent C++ FAQ available on comp.lang.c++. (In particular Section
17). 

Paul.

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