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 ...

Delegates are type safe function pointers *with an optional this pointer* thus no need to pass one round yourself. Obviously their utility is much enhanced in contract to C++ by virtue of being ...

And being pointers, we can pretty much treat them like any other pointer. Passing Registers to Functions To a pointer, it doesn’t matter what kind of memory it is pointing to.

So read on! Function Pointers In general, function pointers aren’t any more mysterious than data pointers: the main difference is that one references variables and the other references functions.

This may fall under the heading of "Don't do that" but did cause me to be slightly curious.What would happen if you say, created a pointer to a function that took three ints as arguments, but then ...

Next, it gets from the VPTR to the specific function pointer inside the VTABLE, such as (*draw). And finally, it provides the call parameters, including the “me” pointer and potentially other ...

When using function pointers, though, it is always a good idea to first verify that the referenced location in memory is not NULL and does exist within the system. Function pointers can be very ...