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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 17:43:07 -0500
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: Newbie Pointers
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At 03:12 PM 2/20/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello:
>
>eg;
>
>Does prototype float *function_name(float *var);
>
>Is the function a pointer to the return type?

Neb.

It's its own data type. In fact the type of function_name is float
*(*)(float *) and the type of function_name(arg) is float *.

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