On 10/05/21 13:47, Tom Lane wrote:
>> An alternative I've sometimes used elsewhere is to typedef the function
>> type itself, and use the * when declaring a pointer to it:
>> typedef void Furbinator(char *furbee);
>
> Is that legal C? I doubt that it was before C99 or so. As noted
> in the Ghostscript docs you came across, it certainly wouldn't have
> been portable back in the day.
It compiles silently for me with gcc --std=c89 -Wpedantic
I think that's the oldest standard I can ask gcc about. Per the manpage,
'c89' is ISO C90 without its amendment 1, and without any gnuisms.
Regards,
-Chap
