What do you mean by “Pointers to Function”? What are Function Pointers ?

We can use a function in two ways: one is to invoke a function and the second is to obtain the address of a function. This address that is obtained is called as pointer to the function and is used to invoke the function.E.g. we have a function named display and we will invoke this function using a pointer to this function as follow:void display (string s) /* … */void (*ptr)(string); //pointer to a function ptr = &display; //assign the address of the function ptr (“hello”); // call the function In the above example the compiler will discover that ptr is a pointer to the function display and calls the function. The dereferencing of a pointer to a function using a * is optional. Similarly it is not necessary to use & to get the address to the pointer. As pointers to functions have argument types declared just like the functions themselves, therefore in pointer assignments the complete function type must exactly match. A function name does not constitute its type. A function type is determined by its return type and its parameter list