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Re: Function prototype inside function prototyp

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Sam Hu <samhu.samhu@gmail.com> writes:

> I've never seen this until now:
>
> void thisworks(char c,int put(char ch,void* cl),void* cl)
> {
>       printf("This works!\n");
> }
>
> Why the function prototye int put(char ch,void* cl) can be in another
> function declaration void thisworks(....) and where can I get more
> information regarding this usage?

C99 says this:

     6.7.5.3  Function declarators (including prototypes)
...

8    A declaration of a parameter as ``function returning type''
     shall be adjusted to ``pointer to function returning type'',
     as in 6.3.2.1.

C89 said something similar, and I imagine that C11 does too.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org

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Function prototype inside function prototyp Sam Hu <samhu.samhu@gmail.com> - 2012-03-27 21:28 -0700
  Re: Function prototype inside function prototyp nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com - 2012-03-29 00:38 -0700
  Re: Function prototype inside function prototyp Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> - 2012-04-02 13:32 -0700
    Re: Function prototype inside function prototyp Sam Hu <samhu.samhu@gmail.com> - 2012-04-04 18:13 -0700

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