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From: olson@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: function returning pointer to itself
Message-ID: <5485@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 12 Jul 88 16:11:58 GMT
Reply-To: olson@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (olson)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Does the new C standard have a natural way to declare a
function that returns a pointer to itself
????

(if you are puzzled by the question, consider the problem 
 of writing a state machine where the states are indicated
 by functions.  To go from one state to another, a function
 exits, returning a pointer to the next function to be executed.
 In the C that I know, I know of no way to declare such functions.
 What does the new standard suggest?)

Todd Olson
olson@helios.tn.cornell.edu
Physics Dept/ Cornell Univ/ Ithaca NY 14853