Question

I would like to forward a callback to a function pointer. So I declare a static (int*) m_pointer1, as well as a method void RegisterCallback1( (int*)fct)

in class1.h:

public:
   int RegisterCallback1( int (*fct) );
private:
   static int (*m_Callback1);

in class1.cpp:

int class1::RegisterCallback1( int (*fct) )
{
    m_Callback1= fct;
}

then, I want to forward the callback to the function pointer:

void class1::Callback1()
{
   (*m_Callback1)();
}

But I get a compiler error “Expression must have (pointer-to)- function type
I have followed tutorial and read about function pointers and they seem to do it this way without any problems. Any ideas why?

EDIT:
So, I declare (int*)(void)m_Callback1 -Visual Studio requires a void there…-
Then how do I call the registerCallback function with the argument?

class1.RegisterCallBack1(  ??? - class2::callback -??? );

Answer 1

You haven’t declared a function pointer, you’ve declared a normal data pointer. You are missing () at the end of the declaration.