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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: address of function
Message-ID: <10377@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 7 Jun 89 21:47:03 GMT
References: <2700@solo8.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2700@solo8.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>Why weren't function pointers handled the way below?
>	int	foo(), (*bar)() = &foo;
>ANSI has fixed this, right?

It's not feasible to fix something in widespread correct usage.
A function designator gets turned into a pointer to the function
in all contexts except as the operand of sizeof or &.  The latter
makes your example correct, although apparently some existing
compilers disallowed use of & in that context.