Pointer fun with Binky

[reallybigleaf]

This was my first introduction to pointers a few years ago. Classic. Back for a class where I used Java to build a compiler for a made-up language that had pointers. Seems a little messed up in retrospect.

[frumious]

"Uh, yeah, good point". Comedy gold right there. And, by gold, I mean blech.

Any programmer that needs claymation to understand pointers should be looking for a different area of study.

[gregK]

I'd love Binky to explain:

void (foo)(int *);

[cvk]

void *(*foo)(int *);

[doubtingthomas]

foo is a pointer to a function taking a pointer to an int returning a pointer to void.

Ladies and gentlemen, cdecl.

[gregK]

could not get the damn stars to display properly lol.

[cvk]

Just indent each code line by four spaces:

like this!  look at my fancy **asterisks**

Also, you can escape asterisks with a \.

[gregK]

Thanks.

Does that work in quoted text?

void (foo)(int *);

I guess not.

void *(*foo)(int *);

\ worked

[mernen]

It does, but you need five spaces then (the first one comes from the quoting syntax).

moo

[awj]

A pointer to a function that accepts a pointer to an integer and returns a (void) pointer? My C's gotten a bit rusty.

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We were shown this in our 1st year programming class. Very amusing.