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From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: help with declaration
Message-ID: <1272@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 00:11:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: epimass.1272
Posted: Thu Jun 18 00:11:47 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 00:46:12 EDT
References: <8286@ut-sally.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
Lines: 21
Keywords: function pointer
Summary: The program "cdecl" is great for this.

In article <8286@ut-sally.UUCP> atc@ut-sally.UUCP (Alvin T. Campbell III) writes:
>
>	I have a question for all you C wizards out there. I want to write 
>a function which returns a pointer to another function. I checked Kernighan
>& Ritchie and Harbison & Steele, but found no solution.

Script started on Wed Jun 17 21:08:03 1987
% cdecl
declare foo as function returning pointer to function returning int
int (*foo())()
% exit
script done on Wed Jun 17 21:08:49 1987

I typed the line beginning "declare", and cdecl shows me the
declaration.  I believe this program is in the comp.sources.unix
(formerly mod.sources) archives, available for anonymous FTP and
such.
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