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Question

can you define function pointer return integer pointer? answer is yes. and it should be like this---->

integer*(*function)();

and my question is , can you define function pointer return function pointer? if answer is no! teach me please. if answer is yes, tell me how please.

Answer 1

Of course you can. The easiest and most readible way is to have an intermediate typedef , something like this:

typedef int* (*pFunc)(void);

and then it's simply:

typedef pFunc (*pFuncRetFunc)(void);

Answer 2

typedef int * (* (* FP)(void))(void);

This defines FP to be a type that represents a function pointer to a function returning a function pointer to a function returning a pointer to int . All function (types) involved take no arguments.