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Subject: Re: address of function
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 11:41:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 17 11:41:00 1986
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>I am a programmer who has just learnt C and has started using it
>to do my programming. I have a question for which I was unable to
>get the answer. I would like to know how to find the address of a
>function in C. I would appreciate any help in this regard from netlanders.
>Thanking all the respondents(C experts).

As defined in K&R, the address of a function may be obtained by referencing
the name of the function without the parens '()', see below.

    int func();

    addr_of_func = func;

This is similar to the fact that the name of an array is it's base address.
Hope this helps.

Larry V. Streepy Jr.                        "Waiting is"
Nathan D. Maier Consulting Engineers

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