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Subject: Re: C syntax
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Date: Fri, 26-Aug-83 00:11:34 EDT
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From:  John L. Romkey <romkey@mit-csr>

          I believe that the msg about types from Ed Hall had a bug in it. The
second example was an array of pointers to functions returning strings, and
Ed used

char *(p[N])();

as the declaration. But this is actually an array of functions returning
strings, which shouldn't mean much to most C compilers. What you really need
here is another *, as in:

char *(*p[N])();

and when calling one of these functions, you want to say:

          x = *(*p[n])();

I still remember the awful pain of trying to figure out how to declare a
function which returned a pointer to a function which returned an int.

          - John Romkey
            romkey@mit-csr