Passing variable type as function parameter

Question

Is it possible to pass variable type as part of a function parameter, e.g.:

void foo(varType type)
{
  // Cast to global static
  unsigned char bar;
  bar =          


        

Answer 1

I don't see how you could do this in the general case, given that C is a statically typed language.

The compiler needs to know at compile time what the type of type * is in order to be able to generate the reference to ->member.