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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Functions within structures
Keywords: structures
Message-ID: <14431@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 12 Nov 90 13:20:31 GMT
References: <2203@abcom.ATT.COM> <1990Nov10.155153.20639@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Nov10.155153.20639@chinet.chi.il.us> john@chinet.chi.il.us (John Mundt) writes:
>		some_value = (*menu[whatever].fptr)();
>		some_value = (menu[whatever].fptr)();
>produce the same assembler code on at least one machine, and both
>work, though the first one is the one that is considered correct.

Actually the second one is more "theoretically" correct.  The function
designator in the first expression is automatically converted to a
pointer to the function; the second form is already that way.