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From: geoff@cs.warwick.ac.uk (Geoff Rimmer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: function casting
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Date: 1 May 89 03:43:38 GMT
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In-reply-to: clark@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU's message of 29 Apr 89 22:55:23 GMT

In article <12481@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> clark@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Robert P. Clark) writes:

> How do I cast something to a pointer to a function that returns
> an integer?  

The way I use is to imagine I am defining a variable x to be a pointer
to function returning int.  I would use:

	int (*x)();

To change this into a cast, take out the x, and put the whole lot in
parentheses.

	(int (*)())

Get the cdecl program!  It will do all of this for you.

Hope this helps.
Geoff

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