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From: phil@osiris.UUCP (Philip Kos)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Array of pointers to functions
Message-ID: <243@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 18:39:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 19 18:39:24 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 22-Apr-85 02:15:49 EST
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Organization: Johns Hopkins Hospital
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An interesting question came up at work today.

A programmer here was wondering how you would declare an
array of pointers to functions returning pointers to
integers.  I've been able to generate code producing a
single pointer to a function returning a pointer to an
integer, as

	int *(*fp_ret_ip)();

but I've been unable to get the C compiler to accept an
array version of this.

Can this be done?  I've tried every combination of paren-
theses I could think of, but every time the comiler barfed
on it.

For the record, I'm using a Pyramid 90x running 4.2BSD/
SysV UNIX.


				Phil Kos
				The Johns Hopkins Hospital