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What do the parentheses around function name mean?
As an exercise and a learning experience I decided to go through the source code of a C library called a better C library(linky) written by Paul Hsieh. I picked this project because the source looked very clean and organized, and seemed relatively short and easy to understand since it was dealing with strings. Also it was a good way to learn how portable code is written.
so I plan to post style/logic/c specific related question from this project in this post. My first question is what is a point of calling strlen like so:
(strlen)((char *) buff->data)
instead of
strlen((char *) buff->data)
Thank you,
