Davidsen's device

[Karl Heuer]

In article <888 at tub.UUCP> net at tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann) writes:
>You can even omit the * since it's superfluous.  Or is it?

In ANSI C, it is.  (I consider this unfortunate; C already has too much DWIM.)
But in pre-ANSI C, you do need the `*' when invoking a function via a pointer
(though some compilers silently did what ANSI now requires).

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint