Recursive function declarations

[Larry Jones]

I am building a state machine program which is composed of a number of
functions.  Each function does it's thing and returns a pointer to the
next function to be called.  Each of the functions has exactly the same
type including return type and arguments.  My problem is exactly how to
declare these functions -- since the return type is identical to the
type of the function, you get an infinite recursion (foo is a function
returning a pointer to a function returning a pointer to a ...).

Anyone have any suggestions?

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