Re: function returning pointer to itself

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1 total messages Started by Jim Gardner Sun, 17 Jul 1988 17:20

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Author: Jim Gardner
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1988 17:20

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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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