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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: pointers to pointers to functions
Message-ID: <1268@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 89 01:32:16 GMT
References: <8247@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
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In article <8247@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, bouma@cs.purdue.EDU (William J. Bouma) writes:
>          int (**f)();
> 
>     And then I tried mallocing some space for it like this:
> 
>          f = (int (**)()) malloc(n * sizof(*f));
                                       ^^^^^
                                       sizeof(

This  worked fine (without any compiler complaints) on both gcc and pcc under
System V/386 Rel 3.2.

>     ?????? Also, C doesn't care if I call the function:

>         (*f[x])();  or  (f[x])();

The first one is conceptually correct, but most compilers will allow both
of them.  I *think* ANSI requires that both be accepted.

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