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From: tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: function returning pointer to itself
Message-ID: <259@chem.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 18 Jul 88 20:59:58 GMT
References: <7725@watdragon.waterloo.edu) <664@goofy.megatest.UUCP) <7797@watdragon.waterloo.edu)
Reply-To: tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch)
Organization: Chemistry Dept, UC San Diego
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In article <7797@watdragon.waterloo.edu) Scott writes:
)In article <664@goofy.megatest.UUCP) djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
))From article <7725@watdragon.waterloo.edu), by smking@lion.waterloo.edu (Scott M. King): (me)
))) In article <5485@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu) olson@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (olson) writes:
))))Does the new C standard have a natural way to declare a
))))function that returns a pointer to itself

)Or, the function could similarly be declared as
)
)	void *
)main();
)
)since you can quite easily convert any pointer to a void * and back without
)loss of information.
)Scott M. King

Wrong.  (void *) is guaranteed to hold any _data_ pointer.  I believe you
were correct the first time, as I think (void *(*)()) is guaranteed to
hold any function pointer.  (Anyone care to correct me?)
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|| Tom Stockfisch, UCSD Chemistry	tps@chem.ucsd.edu