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Article #5203Re: function returning pointer to itself
From: Jim Gardner
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1988 17:20
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1988 17:20
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Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Keywords: smking@lion.waterloo.edu (Scott M. King) writes: > >Oh, don't worry, I don't feel too bad. My declaration *is* correct. >It declares a function returning a pointer to > a function returning a generic pointer. >[...] >since you can quite easily convert any pointer to a void * and back without >loss of information. In the January 88 draft, void * is not a completely generic pointer. It is a generic object pointer, not a function pointer. See pages 23 and 38. Your declaration is not strictly correct.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!jagardner From: jagardner@watmath.waterloo.edu (Jim Gardner) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: function returning pointer to itself Message-ID: <19916@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 17 Jul 88 17:20:30 GMT Reply-To: jagardner@watmath.waterloo.edu Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 15