An example where a function pointer parameter is used to define the function’s own behavior can be found in the C standard library’s Quick Sort function, qsort(), which takes a compare ...

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 ...

For example, function pointers can be used in task schedulers to dynamically call which function is executed from a task table. They can be used in complex state machines or switch statement to ...

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 ...

Here, the average_apply function does all the averaging work, but it requires a function pointer, fn, to do the math operation you want. There are two functions to work out the math: ...

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).

A callback is a function that is executed through a pointer where the function being pointed to contains application specific code. Callbacks are normally passed into a function and provides the ...