One could easily remove the need for trampolines by having a wide function pointer type. In C, this would even be allowed without having a new type, but ABI co

One could easily remove the need for trampolines by having a wide function pointer type. In C, this would even be allowed without having a new type, but ABI compatibility makes this not practical. With a new qualifier this would be no problem though. The real reason some people are against it is that it diverges from C++.