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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Davidsen's device
Message-ID: <14222@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 8 Aug 89 01:20:53 GMT
References: <1430@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <888@tub.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <888@tub.UUCP> net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann) writes:
>You can even omit the * since it's superfluous.  Or is it?

In ANSI C, it is.  (I consider this unfortunate; C already has too much DWIM.)
But in pre-ANSI C, you do need the `*' when invoking a function via a pointer
(though some compilers silently did what ANSI now requires).

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint