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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Function pointers.. help!
Message-ID: <1277@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 89 01:22:13 GMT
References: <3005@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc
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In article <3005@ndsuvax.UUCP>, nebakke@ndsuvax.UUCP (Jeff Bakke) writes:

> Now, to me, this seems alright, but to the  Turbo c 2.0 compiler, it
> says that a Storage class is required.

Assuming that the code you compiled looked as follows:

void (*border_proc)();  
void Assign_border(void (*user_border)()){
  border_proc = user_border;
}

You should have had no problems with a compiler that correctly handles 
the new ANSI formal parameter declarations.  pcc on 386/ix doesn't handle
it, but the fix was simple:

void Assign_border(user_border)
	void (*user_border)();
{
  border_proc = user_border;
}

gcc correctly handles either case.


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