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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: help with declaration
Message-ID: <5999@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 01:02:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.5999
Posted: Fri Jun 19 01:02:48 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 07:11:17 EDT
References: <8286@ut-sally.UUCP> <7001@alice.UUCP> <364@sol.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: function pointer

In article <364@sol.ARPA> crowl@rochester.UUCP (Lawrence Crowl) writes:
>     extern   func_ptr_func_int  getfunc ;

The problem with this is that anyone reading your code would have to
untangle the several levels of typedef in order to determine the meaning
of this declaration, whereas with
	extern int (*getfunc())();
the meaning of the declaration is patent.  This is not a particularly
complicated construct; anyone who has to read C code should learn how
type specification works in C, after which this is easy to understand.