what is this declaration?

[1230987za]

Hi,

I was reading a post about how to learn C programming and someone
mentioned this, *(int f()) in a struct. It is not in any C code, I
guess the guy was showing that there are some tricky part in C.

It does look tricky to me, what does it mean?

Is the following correct?

f is a function; the function returns an integer; this integer is de-
referenced just like a function pointer.

Can someone show me an example usage of such declaration?

 

[Old Wolf]

I was reading a post about how to learn C programming and someone
mentioned this, *(int f()) in a struct. It is not in any C code, I
guess the guy was showing that there are some tricky part in C.

This is not a valid declaration ; perhaps you
are remembering it wrongly.

f is a function; the function returns an integer; this integer is de-
referenced just like a function pointer.

Integers cannot be dereferenced.

A function returning int would be:
int f();
which cannot occur in a struct definition.

A pointer to function returning int would be:
int (*f)();

 

[rahul]

Hi,

I was reading a post about how to learn C programming and someone
mentioned this, *(int f()) in a struct. It is not in any C code, I
guess the guy was showing that there are some tricky part in C.

It does look tricky to me, what does it mean?

Is the following correct?

Does not look like it can be correct in any context.

f is a function; the function returns an integer; this integer is de-
referenced just like a function pointer.

That does not make any sense at all.