Pointers to functions on Xenix

[Karl Heuer]

In article <1989Sep8.021802.29203 at Octopus.COM> stever at octopus.UUCP (Steve Resnick ) writes:
>When I get to the point where I execute an internal function...
>	(Cmds[idx].fptr)(c,v);	/* Here is where I call  the function */
>This is what the compiler doesn't like.

The ability to invoke a function via a pointer without an explicit dereference
is new to ANSI C, and is not supported by all pre-ANSI compilers.  The more
portable syntax is
	(*Cmds[idx].fptr)(c,v);

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