Re: How to prototype functions that return pointers

[wwp <subscript@free.fr>]

Hello James,


On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:50:59 -0700 James Colannino <james@colannino.org>
wrote:

> Richard Nairn wrote:
> > Believe the correct decleration is (char *) readline();
> > 
> > Order of ops.
> 
> That was the next one I tried.  That yielded a syntax error.  I found
> out though that the "two or more data types" error was the result of a
> more difficult bug to find that had to do with something in another
> header file.  Once I fixed that, the declaration char * readline();
> worked.  Needless to say I'm very embarassed now... :-P

Moreover, the following ones are (should be) identical towards the C parser,
spaces between those tokens are not mandatory or can be repeated, and depend
on the coding style and recommendation/standard you follow:

char * readline();
char *readline();


Regards,

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wwp