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From: kanner@apple.UUCP (Herbert Kanner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: bug
Message-ID: <1224@apple.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 19:32:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: apple.1224
Posted: Tue Jun 30 19:32:22 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 2-Jul-87 01:49:44 EDT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, USA
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Can anyone shed light on the following:

The file dcl1.c contains the following four lines.

int thing1(int *());
int thing2(int, int *());
int thing3(int (*)());
int thing4(int, int (*)());

The result of a C++ compilation is below:
CC  dcl1.c:
"dcl1.c", line 1: error: syntax error
"dcl1.c", line 2: error: syntax error
"dcl1.c", line 3: error: syntax error
"dcl1.c", line 3: error: syntax error
"dcl1.c", line 3: error: syntax error
5 errors


The one I really want is thing3.  I want to declare a function whose
parameter is a pointer to a function returning an int.  The other
three lines were exploratory, trying to isolate the apparent bug.  It
is interesting that the compiler accepts thing4 but not thing3.
-- 
Herb Kanner
Apple Computer, Inc.
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