Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!ethz!ethz-inf!mneerach
From: mneerach@inf.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Type of function returning function.
Message-ID: <29530@ethz-inf.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jul 90 10:59:44 GMT
References: <1990Jul10.024205.17382@media.uucp>
Organization: Informatik ETH Zurich
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In article <1990Jul10.024205.17382@media.uucp> rmf@media.uucp (Roger Fujii) writes:
>So, just how does one type a function returning a pointer to a function?
>(other than the obvious void *)
>Example:
>int foo(buff)
>char	*buff;
>{
>	return atoi(buff);
>}
>
>TYPE bar()
>{
>	return foo;
>}

I always program things like this using an intermediate typedef :

typedef int (*MyProcType)(); 

MyProcType bar() { return foo; } 

or more ANSI-like :

typedef int (*MyProcType)(char);

MyProcType bar() { return foo; }

I don't know how to declare functions like this directly; I don't care.
Why make you life unnecessarily hard ?

Matthias