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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Function Calls
Message-ID: <6617@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 11:28:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 17 11:28:16 1984
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> extern int (*a)();
> extern int b();
> main()
> {
> 	a = b;		/* b's type promoted to pointer to function ... */
> 
> 	(*a)();		/* a legal function call */
> 	b();		/* also legal */
> 	a();		/* not legal, but often accepted */
Lattice C has this sickness, I believe.
> 
> 	(b)();		/* the question:  which of these is correct? */
> 	(*b)();
> }
> 
Well (b)() is correct if b() is correct, why should parentheses hurt
you.  "(*b)()" is illegal because (*b) is not a function.

-Ron