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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: pointers to functions
Message-ID: <1989Sep12.181135.7911@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: 12 Sep 89 22:11:35 GMT
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gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
 >>> If f holds the address of the start of the function, *f really doesn't
 >>> have any meaning.  
 >>It certainly does.  *f means the function that starts at f.
 >What could you do with it, other than immediately & it again?

Call it, of course!
(In an ideal language, that is, not C where you call it via the pointer.)