Function pointer as an argument
Definitely.
void f(void (*a)()) { a();}void test() { printf("hello world\n");}int main() { f(&test); return 0;}
Let say you have function
int func(int a, float b);
So pointer to it will be
int (*func_pointer)(int, float);
So than you could use it like this
func_pointer = func; (*func_pointer)(1, 1.0); /*below also works*/ func_pointer(1, 1.0);
To avoid specifying full pointer type every time you need it you coud typedef
it
typedef int (*FUNC_PTR)(int, float);
and than use like any other type
void executor(FUNC_PTR func){ func(1, 1.0);}int silly_func(int a, float b){ //do some stuff}main(){ FUNC_PTR ptr; ptr = silly_func; executor(ptr); /* this should also wotk */ executor(silly_func)}
I suggest looking at the world-famous C faqs.
This is a good example :
int sum(int a, int b){ return a + b;}int mul(int a, int b){ return a * b;}int div(int a, int b){ return a / b;}int mathOp(int (*OpType)(int, int), int a, int b){ return OpType(a, b);}int main(){ printf("%i,%i", mathOp(sum, 10, 12), mathOp(div, 10, 2)); return 0;}
The output is : '22, 5'