In the first part of this series, we covered the basics of pointers in C, and went on to more complex arrangements and pointer arithmetic in the second part. Both times, we focused solely on pointers ...

This material is hereby placed in the public domain. Available in various formats via http://www.netcom.com/~tjensen/ptr/cpoint.htm This document is intended to ...

A concept in C programming that is absolutely essential and fundamental to all software design but often misunderstood is pointers. A pointer is used in C to point to the address of a variable or a ...

This article describes how to use function pointers in various ways to increase the performance and/or the readability of your code. I will try to make this as easy to understand as possible for ...

First off, I'll have coded a workaround before you read this. But now I've got a bee up my bu, errr, bonnett. I'm writing test code in C, and I need 100 pointers to (unique) functions. I'm trying to ...

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 ...