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* Function Pointer to main()
@ 2005-10-08  1:42 Pedro Henrique
  2005-10-08  2:25 ` Bob Rossi
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Pedro Henrique @ 2005-10-08  1:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gcc-help

Hi Everyone,

I was playing with my compiler and so I tried this:

int main (){
    int (*p_func)() = main;
    p_func();
}

I was trying to perceive more about the details of main function. Could
someone explain me what the program tries to do? Why
doesn't the program begin a infinite recursion?


(forgive me my english)
Brazil,
Pedro Henrique





	

	
		
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* Re: Function Pointer to main()
  2005-10-08  1:42 Function Pointer to main() Pedro Henrique
@ 2005-10-08  2:25 ` Bob Rossi
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Bob Rossi @ 2005-10-08  2:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Pedro Henrique; +Cc: gcc-help

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 08:01:44PM -0300, Pedro Henrique wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I was playing with my compiler and so I tried this:
> 
> int main (){
>    int (*p_func)() = main;
>    p_func();
> }
> 
> I was trying to perceive more about the details of main function. Could
> someone explain me what the program tries to do? Why
> doesn't the program begin a infinite recursion?

It does go into an infinate loop. Use GDB to follow the execution. BTW,
that program locked up my machine for a good minute until it died.

Bob Rossi

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