PCC had a particularly aggressive disregard for indirections in such cases. if 'f' was a pointer to a function then ...
f(); (*f)(); (***************************f)(); produced the same code and no diagnostics. brucee On 4/29/05, Aharon Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > in a similar way, one has been able to write > > p->f(args) > > rather than > > (*p->f)(args) > > for quite some time. > > I think this actually worked in the V7 C compiler and PCC, no? > > > perhaps it's not in the standard! > > It is. I think maybe even since 1989. > > Arnold
