> What's unfortunate is how it's impossible to escape asterisks in normal text around here. You can escape an asterisk in normal text by putting a backslash in

> What's unfortunate is how it's impossible to escape asterisks in normal text around here. You can escape an asterisk in normal text by putting a backslash in front of it: int (*cmp)(char *, char *); Described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc (which is linked from the HN FAQ)