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From: newberry@nmsu.edu (Jeff Newberry)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A question on Function declaration
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Date: 13 Feb 91 16:27:57 GMT
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In-reply-to: joshi@motcid.UUCP's message of 12 Feb 91 23:44:07 GMT


>I would like to  declare a function which returns a pointer to a function
>(that returns an integer). I have been unable to strike at the correct
>syntax of such a declaration. 
>
>I tried the following (among others):
>	((int *)()) func() ;
>
>Doesn't work.
>
>Thanks for any hints/answers.


I believe the following should work...

typedef int (*PFI)(); /* type PFI = pointer to a function that returns int */
PFI func();
{
...
}

Jeff Newberry