Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!jagardner
From: jagardner@watmath.waterloo.edu (Jim Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: function returning pointer to itself
Message-ID: <19916@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 17 Jul 88 17:20:30 GMT
Reply-To: jagardner@watmath.waterloo.edu
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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smking@lion.waterloo.edu (Scott M. King) writes:
 >
 >Oh, don't worry, I don't feel too bad. My declaration *is* correct.
 >It declares a function returning a pointer to
 >			a function returning a generic pointer.
 >[...]
 >since you can quite easily convert any pointer to a void * and back without
 >loss of information.
 
In the January 88 draft, void * is not a completely generic pointer.
It is a generic object pointer, not a function pointer. See pages 23 and 38.
Your declaration is not strictly correct.