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From: drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: nested function prototypes
Message-ID: <1439@cullvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 18:00:42 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  7 18:00:42 1987
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Schauble@MIT-Multics.arpa (Paul Schauble) writes:
> Does the ANSI standard allow for nested function prototypes?

Yes.  They make more definitive the function types involved in
building the outer function type.  Thus, your example

	int (*fa(char *))(int, char);

declares fa to be

	function with pointer to char argument returning
	pointer to
	function with int and char arguments returning
	int

(Boy, those are tough to read!)

Dale
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