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From: hannum@schubert.psu.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Type of function returning function.
Message-ID: <1990Jul19.042900.7186@acc.stolaf.edu>
Date: 19 Jul 90 04:29:00 GMT
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In-Reply-To: ckp@grebyn.com's message of 13 Jul 90 07:25:18 GMT


In article <20299@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:

   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?
								   ^^^^^^^^
   To start with, function-ness is not a "terminating" data type.  What you
   really mean to say is I want a TYPE representing a pointer to a function
   returning an *int* (as in your example).


schubert> cdecl
Type `help' or `?' for help
cdecl> declare foo as function returning pointer to function returning int
int (*foo())()
cdecl>

Once again...  cdecl is your friend!
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