Float problems

[Matthew Paul Rhoten]

In article <1991May25.213301.13765 at cs.mcgill.ca> 
storm at cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider) writes:
>#include<stdio.h>
>float testfloat (void);
>[...]
>	f = testfloat;
>[...]

The problem is that parentheses are needed in a call to a function with a 
void argument list. When I try and compile the code above, I get "Illegal
pointer arithmetic" or some such - because when I give the compiler the
token "testfloat" it matches it with a pointer-type. I think the 
interpretation of the error is implementation-dependent. To call the function,
simply include an empty set of parentheses after the function's name:

      f = testfloat();

This will work quite nicely. At least it did on my compiler.

Hope this helps.
 -matt


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