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"Ben Bacarisse" <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote in message 
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> "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> writes:
>
>>     Ok I came across a new term today. I know of dereferences and
>> declarations. But declarator?
>
> The declarator is the part of a declaration that is syntactically
> attached to the name.  It includes that parts that say that a name (or
> type) is a pointer or an array or a function, together with qualifiers
> like const when they apply to those parts of the type.  In
>
>  const int x = 42, *const ip = &x, (*f)(void);
>
> the "const int" part apples to all the declarations.  It's called a type
> specifier and it includes a type qualifier.  The parts "x", "*const ip"
> and "(*f)(void)" are three declarators.  Two of the declared objects are
> initialised.

    So I would say here. All return ints. The "function pointer." would be 
"f" pointing to a function that returns int and takes no arguments.

int printthis (void) {...} //declaration and body of function

printthis *f (void); //initialization right? or...

printhis (*f) (void);

Now if those parenthesis around "*f" are needed can someone give a quick 
help. The API I am looking at has an /optional/ pointer to dunction in it's 
code. Coding does not require using it.

Bill


Bill

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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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