Why can’t I cast a function pointer to (void *)?

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You can’t fix the warning. In fact, in my opinion it should be a hard error since it’s illegal to cast function pointers to other pointers because there are architectures out there today where this isn’t just a violation of the C standard but an actual error that will make the code not work. Compilers allow it because many architectures get away with it even though those programs will crash badly on some other architectures. But it’s not just a theoretical standard violation, it’s something that causes real bugs.

For example on ia64 function pointers are (or at least used to be last time I looked) actually two values, both necessary to make function calls across shared libraries or a program and a shared library. Likewise, the common practice to cast and call function pointers to functions returning a value to a pointer to a function returning void because you know you’ll ignore the return value anyway is also illegal on ia64 because that can lead to trap values leaking into registers causing crashes in some unrelated piece of code many instructions later.

Don’t cast function pointers. Always have them match types. This is not just standards pedantry, it’s an important best practice.

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