From: John Kugelman <kugelman AT mnsinc DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Casting void pointers
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 01:31:01 -0400
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I wrote:
> 
>     double foo (double d)
>         { return d * 2.0; }
> 
>     int main (void)
>     {
>         /* Store function pointer in "generic" pointer. */
>         void (*func) (void) = foo;
> 
>         /* Cast pointer back to original type before calling it. */
>         printf ("%f\n", ((double (*) (double)) func) (5.0));
> 
>         return 0;
>     }

Silly me, I went and ignored my compiler's warnings (I just can't
explain it).  There should be an #include <stdio.h> at the top, and foo
should be cast to the appropriate type in the initialization of func.

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John Kugelman.  kugelman AT mnsinc DOT com

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