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From: brianh@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM (brian_helterline)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A question on Function declaration
Message-ID: <31530033@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 91 17:13:38 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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Abhay B. Joshi writes:
>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.

	You need parenthesis around the '*' like this:
	(int (*)()) func();

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