So after a long painful journey tonight of trying to serialize a function pointer, I began to wonder. After seeing the code with a bunch of reinterpret_cast() calls, I got to wondering -- how does ...

This may fall under the heading of "Don't do that" but did cause me to be slightly curious.What would happen if you say, created a pointer to a function that took three ints as arguments, but then ...

Pointers — you either love them, or you haven’t fully understood them yet. But before you storm off to the comment section now, pointers are indeed a polarizing subject and are both C&#… ...

So read on! Function Pointers In general, function pointers aren’t any more mysterious than data pointers: the main difference is that one references variables and the other references functions.

A critical tool when developing an embedded system in C is an understanding of how pointers work. Misunderstanding pointer fundamentals can result in long hours spent debugging a system or a hidden ...

The C language allows you to provide a pointer to a function, just like a pointer to a variable. In both cases, a C pointer contains the address and the type information about the entity being pointed ...

Function pointers can be used for a wide variety of applications including the implementation of state machines. Just like any tool, it may not always be appropriate to use function pointers for a ...