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From: bs@alice.UucP (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c++
Subject: pointer to function argument bug
Message-ID: <5275@alice.uUCp>
Date: Tue, 8-Apr-86 20:42:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  8 20:42:16 1986
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> From: cudcv@daisy.warwick.UUCP (Rob McMahon)
> 
> That reminds me - why do I have to say
> 
> typedef int (*PF)(int);
> int f ( PF f1 ) { ; }
> 
> when I mean
> 
> int f ( int (*f1)(int) ) { ; }
> 
> which says
> 
> "xx.c", line 1: error: syntax error

Because cfront suffers from a dumb YACC grammar. Try

int f ( auto int (*f1)(int) ) { }

PS You don't have the write { ; } when you mean {}