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7 Sep 2024 05:09:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Random C craziness  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 24 Jul 2008 07:31:02
Message: <488867f6$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Can somebody interpret this for me?
> 
>   while (TRUE) { cont = (*cont)(); }
> 
> What on earth...?

cont is a pointer to a function that is expected to return a pointer to 
a function.  The code here causes a series of functions to be called, 
each one specifying another function to be called afterwards by 
returning the address of the function to be called.

Regards,
John


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