How do I call a pointer-to-member-function?

Question

I\'m getting a compile error (MS VS 2008) that I just don\'t understand. After messing with it for many hours, it\'s all blurry and I feel like there\'s something very obvio

Answer 1

Just to chime in with my own experience, I've come across an error in g++ caused by this statement:

  (this -> *stateHandler)() ;

Where stateHandler is a pointer to a void member function of the class referenced by *this. The problem was caused by the spaces between the arrow operator. The following snippet compiles fine:

(this->*stateHandler)() ;

I'm using g++ (GCC) 4.4.2 20090825 (prerelease). FWIW.