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Hi comp.lang.c,

sorry for the subject of this message not being valid c, anyway this
is the shortest and cleanest way to describe my problem.
To put in other words:
I'm searching for a way to declare functions that return function
pointers of it's own type.
(Yes, I know of void-pointers, I just don't wan't loose type-checking if
I don't have to.)

Cheers,
Till Backhaus

Till Backhaus <> wrote:

> sorry for the subject of this message not being valid c, anyway this
> is the shortest and cleanest way to describe my problem.
> To put in other words:
> I'm searching for a way to declare functions that return function
> pointers of it's own type.

Not possible.

> (Yes, I know of void-pointers, I just don't wan't loose type-checking if
> I don't have to.)

They'd have been useless to you anyway.

Read the FAQ: <http://c-faq.com/decl/recurfuncp.html>.

Richard

In article <>,
(Richard Bos) wrote:

> Read the FAQ: <http://c-faq.com/decl/recurfuncp.html>.
>
> Richard

That was pretty fast! Thank you so much!

Till Backhaus wrote:
> Hi comp.lang.c,
>
> sorry for the subject of this message not being valid c, anyway this
> is the shortest and cleanest way to describe my problem.
> To put in other words:
> I'm searching for a way to declare functions that return function
> pointers of it's own type.
> (Yes, I know of void-pointers, I just don't wan't loose type-checking if
> I don't have to.)
>
> Cheers,
> Till Backhaus

Maybe RTTI in C++ would help. There is nothing like that in C.

What exactly is the problem you are trying to solve? Maybe there is a
simple solution in the C language from anther track.

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:33:47 +0100, Till Backhaus <>
wrote in comp.lang.c:

> Hi comp.lang.c,
>
> sorry for the subject of this message not being valid c, anyway this
> is the shortest and cleanest way to describe my problem.
> To put in other words:
> I'm searching for a way to declare functions that return function
> pointers of it's own type.
> (Yes, I know of void-pointers, I just don't wan't loose type-checking if
> I don't have to.)
>
> Cheers,
> Till Backhaus

Can't be done directly. Can be done using a structure with a function
pointer as its only member. Return an instance of the structure.

Coding is rather icky and left as an exercise to the reader, with the
hint that typedef comes in handy.

See http://c-faq.com/decl/recurfuncp.html in the FAQ, how did you miss
it?

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