Function pointers are easy if you typedef the function type. What a pointer to function (int) returning int? The difficult way: int (*p)(int); The easy

Function pointers are easy if you typedef the function type. What a pointer to function (int) returning int? The difficult way: int (*p)(int); The easy way: typedef int Func(int); Func *p; The typedef reads just like a normal function declaration except for the name is the type name rather than the function symbol name. Just like a function declaration, you can add more documentation by giving the parameters names. e.g.: // used for some hypothetical allocator API typedef void *Alloc(size_t size); Similar trick can be used for pointers to arrays (just typedef the array type). Although in practice pointers to arrays just make for awful code.