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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pointers to functions on Xenix
Message-ID: <14560@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 8 Sep 89 21:37:14 GMT
References: <1989Sep8.021802.29203@Octopus.COM>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302
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In article <1989Sep8.021802.29203@Octopus.COM> stever@octopus.UUCP (Steve Resnick ) writes:
>When I get to the point where I execute an internal function...
>	(Cmds[idx].fptr)(c,v);	/* Here is where I call  the function */
>This is what the compiler doesn't like.

The ability to invoke a function via a pointer without an explicit dereference
is new to ANSI C, and is not supported by all pre-ANSI compilers.  The more
portable syntax is
	(*Cmds[idx].fptr)(c,v);

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