> if the standard did mandate that pointers to functions could participate in a memcpy and the behavior was as if the instructions of that function were treated

> if the standard did mandate that pointers to functions could participate in a memcpy and the behavior was as if the instructions of that function were treated as an array of chars, then C++ compilers would be forced to accommodate that implementation C/C++ compilers would then not be portable to ISAs with Harvard architecture.