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"Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> writes:
>     Ok here is just a quickie. Demonstrating the "function pointer." This is 
> sloppy because I did get these two warnings after compilation. And I know if 
> something was passed to the print wrapper function and the printf specifier 
> needed to be something other than %s there would be a problem. But this is 
> as I say just a quickie.

Compiler warnings often indicate *serious* problems.  That's not always
the case, but it is here.

> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int print(char *);
> int (*pf) (char *);

Ok, pf is a pointer-to-function.

> int main()
> {
>     pf = print("hello there");

The print() function return a result of type int.  You're trying to
assign that int value to a function pointer.

The name of a function, in an expression context, gives you the address
of (i.e., a pointer to) the function.  The name of a function followed
by parentheses *calls* the function, and gives you the value returned by
the function.

If you want the pointer object pf to point to the function print, you
need to do:

    pf = print;

which is equivalent to:

    pf = &print;

Once you've done that, you can use pf to call the function it points to:

    pf("hello there");

which is equivalent to:

    (*pf)("hello there");

>     return pf;

Now you're trying to return a pointer from main.  Why?

> }
>
> int print(char *input)
> {
>     printf("%s\n", input);
>     return 0;
> }
>
>     And the warnings:
>
> p.c: In function 'main':
> p.c:8:8: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast 
> [enabled by default]
>      pf = print("hello there");
>         ^
> p.c:9:5: warning: return makes integer from pointer without a cast [enabled 
> by default]
>      return pf;
>      ^
>
> I did not use -Wall either. as the compiler says "enabled by default. It 
> compiles and runs.

gcc has an unfortunate habit of issuing non-fatal warnings for code that
is unambiguously incorrect.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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declarator "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-06-28 21:58 -0400
  declarator "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-06-28 19:14 -0700
    Re: declarator "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-06-28 22:36 -0400
      Re: declarator "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-06-28 19:46 -0700
      Re: declarator Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-06-29 11:22 +0100
        Re: declarator "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-06-29 16:07 -0400
        Re: declarator "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-06-29 16:09 -0400
  Re: declarator Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-06-28 21:51 -0700
  Re: declarator Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-06-29 11:08 +0100
    Re: declarator "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-06-29 16:18 -0400
      Re: declarator Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-06-29 14:23 -0700
        Re: declarator "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-06-29 18:39 -0400
        Re: declarator "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-06-29 20:39 -0400
          Re: declarator Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-06-29 19:01 -0700
            Re: declarator "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-06-29 22:13 -0400
              Re: declarator Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-06-29 20:45 -0700
                Re: declarator Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-06-30 08:22 -0700
                Re: declarator Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-07-11 08:44 -0700
                Re: declarator "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-06-30 12:48 -0400
                Re: declarator Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-06-30 15:32 -0700
                Re: declarator John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2015-07-01 13:50 -0700
                Re: declarator gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-07-01 21:57 +0000
                Re: declarator "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-01 15:05 -0700
                Re: declarator "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-07-02 20:34 -0400
  Re: declarator Jens Stuckelberger <Jens_Stuckelberger@nowhere.net> - 2015-06-29 14:55 +0000

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