Problems with pointers to function pointers

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From: Jarkko Sonninen
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1993 16:44

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Could someone explain, why the following piece of code compiles ok
as c (gcc 2.4.3), but not as c++ (g++), please ?

void b (void) { return; }

void a (void (**ptr)(void)) {
    *ptr = b;
}

main () {
    void (*p)(void);
    a (&p);
    p ();
}
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