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Learn C the Hard Way: Practical Exercises on the Computational Subjects You Keep Avoiding (Like C)
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Learn C the Hard Way: Practical Exercises on the Computational Subjects You Keep Avoiding (Like C)

by Zed A. Shaw
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
380 pages
10h 15m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Exercise 18. Pointers to Functions

Functions in C are actually just pointers to a spot in the program where some code exists. Just like you’ve been creating pointers to structs, strings, and arrays, you can point a pointer at a function, too. The main use for this is to pass callbacks to other functions, or to simulate classes and objects. In this exercise, we’ll do some callbacks, and in the next exercise, we’ll make a simple object system.

The format of a function pointer looks like this:

int (*POINTER_NAME)(int a, int b)

A way to remember how to write one is to do this:

• Write a normal function declaration: int callme(int a, int b)

• Wrap the function name with the pointer syntax: int (*callme)(int a, int b) ...

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