Writing a function pointer in c

Question

I was recently reading a code, and found that a function pointer is written as :

int (*fn_pointer ( this_args ))( this_args )

I usually enc

Answer 1

This

int (*fn_pointer ( this_args1 ))( this_args2 )

declares a function that takes as arguments this_args1 and returns a function pointer of type

int (*fn_pointer)(this_args2)

so it's just a function that returns a function pointer.