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From: sland@motcid.UUCP (Stephen Shortland)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A question on Function declaration
Keywords: pointer function integer
Message-ID: <5807@marble.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 91 09:36:33 GMT
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Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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joshi@motcid.UUCP (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.

>Thanks for any hints/answers.

Have you tried:

        int (*func())()
 
I think that this should do what you want.

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