This may fall under the heading of "Don't do that" but did cause me to be slightly curious.What would happen if you say, created a pointer to a function that took three ints as arguments, but then ...

I'm trying to cast my function to an int, add an offset, and cast it back to a function pointer (I don't plan on calling the pointers).

Pointers — you either love them, or you haven’t fully understood them yet. But before you storm off to the comment section now, pointers are indeed a polarizing subject and are both C&#… ...

The C language allows you to provide a pointer to a function, just like a pointer to a variable. In both cases, a C pointer contains the address and the type information about the entity being pointed ...

Unlike C pointers to functions, functors can keep state (i.e., in private member variables, as you'll see in Listing 3). The downside compared with C comes from all those extra lines beyond the ...

Function pointers can be used for a wide variety of applications including the implementation of state machines. Just like any tool, it may not always be appropriate to use function pointers for a ...