Re: Function pointers and #defines

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:32:47PM -0700, Justin Carlson wrote:
> A fair number of places in the headers, we have stuff like this:
> 
> void (*_some_fn)(int arg1, int arg2);
> #define some_fn(arg1, arg2) _some_fn(arg1, arg2)
> 
> Why do we do this, as opposed to:
> 
> void (*some_fn)(int arg1, int arg2);
> 
> Both syntaxes result in being able to say
> 
> some_fn(1, 2);
> 
> but the latter is both clearer and shorter.  Is there some deep,
> mystical C reason that we use the former, or did someone do it that way
> a long time ago and no one has changed it?

At a guess, this prevents taking the address of the function
unintentionally...

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