In the first part of this series, we covered the basics of pointers in C, and went on to more complex arrangements and pointer arithmetic in the second part. Both times, we focused solely on pointe… ...

So read on! Function Pointers In general, function pointers aren’t any more mysterious than data pointers: the main difference is that one references variables and the other references functions.

The C language allows you to provide a pointer to a function, just like a pointer to a variable. In both cases, a C pointer contains the address and the type information about the entity being pointed ...

This may fall under the heading of "Don't do that" but did cause me to be slightly curious.What would happen if you say, created a pointer to a function that took three ints as arguments, but then ...

I'm trying to cast my function to an int, add an offset, and cast it back to a function pointer (I don't plan on calling the pointers).