C++/C function pointers that return void*

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You are doing one thing incorrectly – you are trying to invoke your ‘ptr’ function before invoking ‘function’. What you were supposed to do is to pass just a pointer to ‘ptr’ and invoke ‘ptr’ using passed pointer from ‘function’ like that:

void ptr(int x)
{
    printf("from ptr [%d]\n", x);
}

int function(int a, int b , void (*func)(int) )
{
    printf( "from function a=[%d] b=[%d]\n", a, b );
    func(a); // you must invoke function here

    return 123;
}


void main()
{
    function( 10, 2, &ptr );
    // or
    function( 20, 2, ptr );
}

which gives:

from function a=[10] b=[2]
from ptr [10]
from function a=[20] b=[2]
from ptr [20]

which is what you wanted

for

function(20, 20, ptr(20));

to work – you would have to have sth like:

// 'ptr' must return sth (int for example)
// if you want its ret val to be passed as arg to 'function'
// this way you do not have to invoke 'ptr' from within 'function'
int ptr(int);
int function(int, int , int);

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