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Re:Why undefined behavior may call a never-called function by gmueckl on Sunday September 24, 2017 @05:47PM (#15326653)
No, the function pointer is declared static. It cannot be referred to outside the current file.
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Re:Why undefined behavior may call a never-called function by DSrcl on Sunday September 24, 2017 @06:33PM (#15326846)
The function pointer is static. But the function that mutates it, NeverCalled, is not. One can still indirectly change that function pointer.
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