on the fringe of C syntax/semantics

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <457 at usage.csd.unsw.oz>, troy at mr_plod.cbme.unsw.oz (Troy Rollo) writes:
|  From article <789 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, by davidsen at crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr):
|  
|  davidsen>   If I understand the question, you want (int(*)())
|  
|  Nope - bracketing only works when you have something to group with. that will
|  produce exactly the same results as (int *())

In the original question some aspect of varargs was being questioned, in
which the argument in question is used as a cast. This is how a cast
works:
	(int (*)())	cast X into pointer to function returning int
	(int *())	cast X into function returning pointer to int

I realize that the macro may not be identical on all systems, but I
*thought* that's what the std said, a type, formatted to be used as a
cast. Used *as I indicated* the expressions do not have the same effect
at all and I'm not sure that the 2nd is legal, casting something to be a
function???
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