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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: func ptr bug
Message-ID: <182@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 87 01:07:21 GMT
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
Lines: 28
Keywords: bug

/*

I have found a bug in the ATT C++ compiler, release 1.2.1.
There is a getaround.

Point of order:  Who do I report bugs to?  I have the sources, so
if I fix a bug, how can I submit the fix for inclusion in subsequent releases?

Now then, without further ado, heeeere's the BUG!  You can't declare
a pointer to a function inside a function.  It says, "syntax error".

The getaround is to use a typedef.

*/

typedef int (*fptr)(char*);

struct foozle
{ int (*foo)(char*); };  // okay 

int (*foo)(char*);       // okay 

main()
{
  fptr foozle;           // okay 
  int (*foo)(char*);     // syntax error
  {int (*foo)(char*);}   // syntax error 
}