Re: OFFTOPIC: recursive typedef

[Carlos Pereira <carlos pehoe civil ist utl pt>]

> I have this function type definition:
>
> typedef void (*NxpElementIterateFunc) (NxpElement *elem,
>                                       gpointer func,
>                                       gpointer user_data);
>
> but what I would really like is:
>
> typedef void (*NxpElementIterateFunc) (NxpElement *elem,
>                                       NxpElementIterateFunc func,
>                                       gpointer user_data);
>
> Can it be done in C?
> Thanks in advance.

I doubt, at least from my experience.
You can use this:

typedef struct _app_object {
void (*function) (struct _app_object *);
struct _app_object *next, *before; } app_object;

but not this:

typedef struct _app_object {
void (*function) (app_object *);
app_object *next, *before; } app_object;

Carlos