On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:32:47PM -0700, Justin Carlson wrote: > A fair number of places in the headers, we have stuff like this: > > void (*_some_fn)(int arg1, int arg2); > #define some_fn(arg1, arg2) _some_fn(arg1, arg2) > > Why do we do this, as opposed to: > > void (*some_fn)(int arg1, int arg2); > > Both syntaxes result in being able to say > > some_fn(1, 2); > > but the latter is both clearer and shorter. Is there some deep, > mystical C reason that we use the former, or did someone do it that way > a long time ago and no one has changed it? At a guess, this prevents taking the address of the function unintentionally... -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
