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From: diamond@diamond.csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Passing array of function pointers
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Date: 13 Apr 89 05:04:24 GMT
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In article <MLEISHER.89Apr12105742@tesuque.nmsu.edu> mleisher@nmsu.edu (Mark Leisher)
asks for help with:

 1 > void junk( int a, int b )
 2 > {
 3 >         cout << a << "\n" << b;
 4 > }

 5 > void fill( (*f[])(int, int) )
 6 > {
 7 >     int i;
 8 >     for ( i = 0; i < 128; i++ )
 9 >       f[i] = junk;
10 > }

11 > main()
12 > {
13 >      void (*func_tbl[128])(int, int);
14 >      fill( func_tbl );
15 > }

In line 9, *f[i] must return an int but junk returns void.
In line 14, a similar type mismatch occurs.

Try for line 5:

     void fill( void (*f[])(int, int) )

Unfortunately g++ still dislikes it.  Whose c++ are you using?

Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.jp@relay.cs.net)
  The above opinions are my own.   |  Why are programmers criticized for
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