Function pointer syntax peculiarity

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.UUCP
Tue Dec 4 04:14:49 AEST 1984


Guy Harris is correct.  The lack of need to * a pointer to function when
using it in a call is a PCCism, dating back at least to V7.  (I tried it
on my V7 some while ago, when I noticed that the then-current ANSI C
draft had legitimized this usage; cc objected but pcc took it.)
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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