August 1999
Beginner to intermediate
912 pages
15h 44m
English
Understand how a function can have a pointer
See why pointers to functions can be valuable
Create function pointer data types
Declare and use function pointers
Create arrays of function pointers
When a function is compiled into an executable program, storage is reserved for the function’s executable code to reside in memory at runtime. When the program runs, the function loads into memory somewhere. The address marking the beginning of the function in memory is called the function address.
A function address is the memory location marking the starting address of the memory segment that a function’s executable code loads into at runtime. ...