cv qualifiers are always discarded on function types, they have no effect:
```
using ft = void();
using cft = const cft;

static_assert(std::is_same_v<ft, cft>); // passes
```
Hence, there are no type reference/pointers to const function. Function types are not object types, and cannot be assigned to, and their concrete representation cannot change at runtime: in a sense, they are always 'logically const' (and never 'logically volatile'). Since there is no reasonable semantics for runtime modification of a function's source code, having cv qualifiers on them seems superfluous.

With respect to this view, it seems logical to say that casting to a function type does not cast away const (but does cast away volatile). Conversely, casting from function type to void* could be viewed as casting away const. This boils down to 2 possible 'cv violations', but only one which could actually lead to a cv related UB without first encountering a strict aliasing UB:

```
void f();

// 1) volatile object pointer -> function pointer
volatile int i;
// bad: cast away volatile
auto* pf = reinterpret_cast<void(*)()>(&i);
// Ok
int const* pi = reinterpret_cast<int const*>(pf);

// UB: access to volatile object through non
// volatile lvalue. The first cast should be made
// illegal
int j = *pi;

// 2) function pointer -> non const object
//      pointer
void f();
// ok: we cast away const, but see below
int* pi = reinterpret_cast<int*>(&f);


```
This would seem like reasonable implementation, but is not mandated by the standard, and I think implementation are free to document how they support conversion to/from function pointer an object pointers.

I didn't go through explaining member function pointers; but they behave the same with respect to cv-ness. Although, their syntax is a different beast. Unlike function types, there exist no member function types, nor reference to member function types, so it is impossible to name or declare a  'const member function' type (the const qualifier appearing after the argument list is completely unrelated as it applies to the implicit 'this' and has no relationship on the constness of a pointed to member function.


On April 26, 2023 7:19:26 p.m. EDT, Myria via Std-Discussion <std-discussion@lists.isocpp.org> wrote:
C++ says that reinterpret_casting an object pointer to a function pointer is conditionally supported.  However, there seems to be implementation divergence on what happens if the object pointer is cv-qualified.  GCC allows casts from cv object * to function pointer, but Clang and Visual C++ do not.

I mentioned this some years ago as a possible defect report, and I sent a request for one, but it never got filed.

Should something like this be a defect report?  What is the correct interpretation of the Standard on this?  Being a conditionally supported operation, is either interpretation allowed?

[expr.reinterpret.cast]/2 says that reinterpret_cast "shall not cast away constness".  But is casting to function pointer type removing constness?  [expr.reinterpret.cast]/8 mentions the possibility of cv-qualified casts in the other direction.

Function types have no cv qualification in the normal sense.  A cv-qualified member function is referring to the "this" parameter, not the constness of the function itself.  Is a cast to function type removing a cv qualifier when functions having them is nonsensical to begin with?

#include <cstdint>
#include <cstdio>

#if !defined(__x86_64__) && !defined(_M_X64)
    #error "This is an x86-64-only program"
#endif

#ifdef _MSC_VER
    #pragma code_seg(push, ".text")
    #pragma code_seg(pop)
    #define EXECUTABLE_SEGMENT __declspec(allocate(".text"))
#elif defined(__linux__)
    #define EXECUTABLE_SEGMENT [[gnu::section(".text.meow")]]
#else
    #error "Unknown platform"
#endif

// movl $0x12345678, %eax
// ret
EXECUTABLE_SEGMENT const std::uint8_t s_code[] =
{
    0xB8, 0x78, 0x56, 0x34, 0x12, 0xC3
};

int main()
{
    // an intervening std::uintptr_t cast works with all compilers relevant here
    int result = reinterpret_cast<int (*)()>(s_code)();
    std::printf("%08X\n", result);
    return 0;
}

Melissa