2.Calling Convention….

Normally you don’t have to think about a function’s calling convention: The compiler assumes cdecl as default if you don’t specify another convention. However if you want to know more, keep on reading … The calling convention tells the compiler things like how to pass the arguments or how to generate the name of a function. Examples for other calling conventions are stdcall, pascal, fastcall. The calling convention belongs to a functions signature: Thus functions and function pointers with different calling convention are incompatible with each other!  For the GNU GCC you use the attribute keyword: Write the
function definition followed by the keyword attribute and then state the calling convention in double parentheses.

//  define the calling convention
void DoIt(float a, char b, char c) __attribute__((cdecl));
3.Assign an Address to a Function Pointer
It’s quite easy to assign the address of a function to a function pointer. You simply take the name of a suitable and known function or member function. Although it’s optional for most compilers you should use the address operator & infront of the function’s name in order to write portable code.
// assign an address to the function pointer..

int DoIt (float a, char b, char c){ printf(“DoIt\n”); return a+b+c; }
int DoMore(float a, char b, char c){ printf(“DoMore\n”); return a-b+c; }
pt2Function = DoIt; // short form
pt2Function = &DoMore; // correct assignment using address operator