From: Milind A Choudhary <milindchoudhary.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
Cc: kumar11 <ravikumar.chakram@gmail.com>,
linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Function pointers
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:27:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <70016fb31001231427n225eb4f6i5c78da6f9223cf01@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19288.9425.111644.585101@cerise.gclements.plus.com>
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Glynn Clements
<glynn@gclements.plus.com> wrote:
>
> kumar11 wrote:
>
>> Could you please explain the meaning of below declaration statement.
>>
>> char (*pa())[4];
>
> "pa" is a function returning a pointer to an array of four characters.
>
You already have got the required answer from others.
C and function pointers can always be confusing. At times you think
you have understood it throughly and but still not be able to decode some
more complex declarations. (cdec can come to help but not always..at least not
in a technical interview ) The best approach that I have come across is
the `Clockwise Spiral` rule. (link :
http://www.c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html )
Hope this helps..
Thanks & Regards
Milind A Choudhary
http://www.csl.mtu.edu/~machoudh/
--
Milind Arun Choudhary
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-23 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-21 6:33 Function pointers kumar11
2010-01-21 6:57 ` saravanaraj v
2010-01-21 9:56 ` Glynn Clements
2010-01-23 22:27 ` Milind A Choudhary [this message]
[not found] ` <201001241003091879376@gmail.com>
2010-01-24 7:59 ` Re: " Glynn Clements
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