Re: I don't understand typedef example

On 23 Mrz., 03:37, pete <pfil...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
André Hänsel wrote:
On 23 Mrz., 01:17, pete <pfil...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
André Hänsel wrote:
Thanks for all your answers. They make it clear. So I understand that
all the author wanted to say is that there is no syntax in C to use a
typedef'd function type to define (or even declare) a function of that
type.
Since the only use of such a typedef is to make a type "pointer to
such a function" I probably will stick to the "typedef int
*pointer_to_such_function(int,int)" syntax in my own code.
Did you understand the part of the answers
which explained about the author being wrong?

You *can* use a typedef to declare a function.

Actually I don't think the author is wrong but he expresses the facts
in a very unfortunate way. I think by the sentence "As a word of
warning, typedef can only be used to declare the type of return value
from a function, not the overall type of the function." he means
something like "The typedef'd 'type name' cannot be used to define a
function of this type, it can only be used to define a function
returning a pointer to a funtion of this type."
This is what you meant by "using a typedef to declare a function",
isn't it?

No.

Or is there really a way to define a function of this very type?

No.
A typedef can be used to declare a function type.
A typedef can't be used to define a function.
I just posted this code recently:

/* BEGIN new.c */

#include <stdio.h>

#define STRING1 "\n/* BEGIN output new.c */\n"
#define STRING2 "/* END output new.c */"

typedef void *copyfunc(void *s1, const void *s2, size_t n);
/*
** mem_cpy and mem_move
** are functions declared with a copyfunc typedef.
*/
copyfunc mem_cpy;
copyfunc mem_move;

int main(void)
{
     char string1[sizeof STRING1];
     char string2[sizeof STRING2];

     mem_cpy(string1, STRING1, sizeof string1);
     mem_move(string2, STRING2, sizeof string2);
     puts(string1);
     puts(string2);
     return 0;

}

void *mem_cpy(void *s1, const void *s2, size_t n)
{
           unsigned char *p1 = s1;
     const unsigned char *p2 = s2;

     while (n-- != 0) {
         *p1++ = *p2++;
     }
     return s1;

}

void *mem_move(void *s1, const void *s2, size_t n)
{
           unsigned char *p1 = s1;
     const unsigned char *p2 = s2;

     p2 += n;
     while (p2 != s2 && --p2 != s1) {
         ;
     }
     if (p2 != s2) {
         p2  = s2;
         while (n-- != 0) {
             p1[n] = p2[n];
         }
     } else {
         while (n-- != 0) {
             *p1++ = *p2++;
         }
     }
     return s1;

}

/* END new.c */

--
pete

Oh, now I understand. Of course I was aware of the difference between
the declaration and the definition, I simply could not understand why
a language may provide a syntax to declare a function using the
typedef but *not* provide a syntax to *define* the function using it.
.

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