Frank Balluffi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Someone said:
>> The real fix would be to eliminate all
>> remaining non-ANSI constructs (that have still be left in because of
> > their implicit type conversion).
> What about calling a callback function? According to the original and ANSI
> versions of K and R, a pointer to a function should be de-referenced. For
> example:
>
> ret=(*cb)(...);
>
> not
>
> ret=cb(...);
Why that? These two calls mean exactly the same, in particular there
is no difference as far as the prototype (or lack thereof) is
concerned. In fact, *all* function calls use a function pointer --
if you explicitly name a function or dereference a function pointer,
there's an implicit conversion into the appropriate pointer.
If you want to make really really really clear that 'cb' is a pointer,
you can even write
ret = (*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*cb)))(...))))));
because each '*' is effectively ignored :-)
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