On 26 Feb 2000 out of nowhere Ian Lance Taylor spoke:

~ :They are not defined on SunOS because SunOS is not an ANSI C compliant
~ :system, and never has been.  It doesn't even ship with an ANSI C
~ :compiler.

yeah, I noticed so, naitive compilers breaks on the code, however lots of
people use gcc on SunOS 4.x platform which is able to compile (with a
bunch of warnings) ansi-compliant code.

~ :The GNU binutils use this macro to detect this case:

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Thanks for the macro, I would probably use it in my code. 
I just have a question regarding it, if you don't mind:

~ :[char *(*pfn) = (char *(*)) $1],

So we just check whether we can access the function pointer, right?

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