Difference in syntaxes

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Hi all,

What is the difference between:

char* f(){}

and

char *f(){}

When i will get the value from where i called the above functions what would the syntax be?

char *buffer=f();

OR

char* buffer=f();

I googled it out but dint find a satisfying answer.And what is the difference between the above syntaxes.

Thanks and Regards,
Rahul

Posted 4-Jun-15 10:01am

Rahul VB

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Frankie-C · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-04T22:56:00

In short because C is a free format language, whatever style you choose its ok while the parser can make a distinction of each token.
Please consider that in your case even:

C++

char*f(){}

It's perfectly equivalent top the other 2.
This peculiarity of C lead to a very special type of contest called C obfuscation contest[^]. This site will give you much more answers that all other links together... ;-)

Andreas Gieriet · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-04T10:21:00

Solution 1

See http://www.cdecl.org/[^] and play with your declarations (without the function body).

See also In C, what is the correct syntax for declaring pointers?[^].

BTW: I wonder if you were lazy or what - this is one of the first hits when I enter your question in Google...

Cheers
Andi

Posted 4-Jun-15 10:21am

Andreas Gieriet

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 4-Jun-15 17:09pm

5ed. At first I would think that first link is a bit of off-topic, but later on I realized that the declaration can be edited. Nice.
Basically, people answered the question.
—SA

Andreas Gieriet 5-Jun-15 3:18am

Thanks for your 5!
The first link allows to play with the declaration syntax, that's why I thought it would be useful.
Cheers
Andi