Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Static Function Invocation Thru Pointer
Message-ID: <1991Mar3.010606.20706@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Mar3.002250.26164@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1991 01:06:06 GMT

In article <1991Mar3.002250.26164@agate.berkeley.edu> labc-1ia@web-3g.berkeley.edu (Andrew M. Choi) writes:
>Hi.  This article is about the question of invoking a static
>function in another file through the use of pointer to
>function...

That is perfectly legitimate.  If you can get a pointer to it, you can
call it.  "static" just means that the *name* is not visible outside the
file where it is defined.
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