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From: kissell@flairvax.UUCP (Kevin Kissell)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.lang.c
Subject: Re: functions returning pointers to functions
Message-ID: <297@flairvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Dec-83 18:03:52 EST
Article-I.D.: flairvax.297
Posted: Wed Dec 14 18:03:52 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Dec-83 01:28:05 EST
Organization: Fairchild AI Lab, Palo Alto, CA
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To declare a function returning a pointer to a function returning an
integer, the construct

int (*funcfunc())()

is pretty standard.  Things get confusing when the parameters are added.
Steve's example of the form

	int (*getroutine())(name, table)

does indeed fail under 4.1, but

	int (*getroutine(name, table))()

will work just fine, and is more correct if you think about it.
What I can't figure is how the first version worked under 2.8!

		Kevin D. Kissell
		Fairchild Research Center
		Advanced Processor Development
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