function pointer help needed

[Wayne Throop]

> jlh at loral.UUCP (Jim Vaxkiller)
> I'm having a little problem with tables of pointers to functions.
> What I want to do is have several functions returning type void,
> The following code fragment illustrates my problem.
>       void err0() {}
>       int  err1() {}
>       static (*ptr_tbl[])() = { err0, err1 };
>       main() { (*ptr_tbl[0])(); }

You have declared ptr_tbl to be an array of pointers to functions
returning int, and err0 is a pointer to a void function.  You must use
casts or unions if you wish to have an array of pointers to functions of
more than one type.  Unions are probably the best method, though there
are problems with initializers for unions.  I don't see any portable way
to statically initialize an array of pointers to functions of differing
types.

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