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 ...

I'm trying to cast my function to an int, add an offset, and cast it back to a function pointer (I don't plan on calling the pointers).

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.

One of the most common applications for using function pointers is in task schedulers. Every embedded system contains some type of task scheduler whether it is a simple round robin loop or a state of ...

Unlike C pointers to functions, functors can keep state (i.e., in private member variables, as you'll see in Listing 3). The downside compared with C comes from all those extra lines beyond the ...