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From: badri@ur-helheim.UUCP (Badri Lokanathan)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Quirk in assignment of pointers to functions ..
Message-ID: <437@ur-helheim.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 16:28:15 EST
Article-I.D.: ur-helhe.437
Posted: Tue Jan 28 16:28:15 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 31-Jan-86 23:57:06 EST
Reply-To: badri@ur-helheim.UUCP (Badri Lokanathan)
Organization: U. of Rochester, EE Dept.
Lines: 31

The following problem may have been discussed before on this
newsgroup; I came across it just recently. 

Consider the following (perfectly valid) statements:
int abc(), (*f)();
   .
   .
   .
f = abc;

This works (as per K & R) and all is well.
Now consider 
void abc(), (*f)();
   .
   .
   .
f = abc;

This was not accepted by our preprocessor (we run BSD4.2). However, code
equivalent to this appears in spice3 (the latest release of spice
from Berkeley.) I understand spice3 was written on BSD4.3, which leads
me to believe that the 4.3 preprocessor handles things slightly
differently. Any comments??

Badri
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