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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: (* func)(fred, bert)
Message-ID: <744@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 89 15:41:11 GMT
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Organization: Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA
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dsr@stl.stc.co.uk (David Riches) sez:
> I want a function with the following interface, that does some actions
> when a signal activates it :-
> 
> VOID error(code, status)
 .....
 
> VOID main()
> 
>  {
>   signal(SIG_ALARM, error(101, &stat);		<----------------- (B)

You can do this quite easily, but it takes a global variable and
an additional procedure:

void error(code, status)
int code, *status;
 {
    etc.
 }

int stat;

void error101()
 {
    error(101, &stat);
 }

void main()
 {
    signal(SIG_ALARM, error101);

    etc.
 }
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