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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

What are they? When used correctly function pointers are type safe, so what's the benefit of delegates?

fib = fib.Memoize(); The first line of this example creates the variable to hold the function pointer and indicates that it should have one parameter of type integer and return an integer.

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 ...