Re: Pointers to functions

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From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 00:29

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In article <4jttba$3gt@solutions.solon.com>, Lloyd Hopkins <Lloyd@bomber.demon.co.uk> writes:

|> I am having some difficulty with some of the examples in 5.12.  The first
|> few are straight forward enough, but (for example):

|> char (*(*x[3])())[5]

|> is pretty confusing to figure!  I'll print out your advice and take a look
|> at it again.

Take this apart from inside out, and you'll get:

          x		is
	  x[3]		an array of three
	 *x[3]		pointers pointing to
	(*x[3])()	a function (taking an unspecified number of
			arguments) returning
       *(*x[3])()	a pointer to
      (*(*x[3])())[5]	an array of five
 char (*(*x[3])())[5]   characters

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de              completely different"

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