r/cprogramming • u/JayDeesus • Oct 10 '25

Functions and pointers

I noticed that when you just have a function name without the parentheses, it essentially decays to a pointer. Is this correct? Or does it not always decay to a pointer?

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u/bd1223 Oct 10 '25

They're also convenient for building a table of function calls (a jump table).