A sad, non-working example of a pointer to a non-static member function

member_function_pointer.cpp

#include <iostream>

/* A sad, non-working example of a pointer to a non-static member function */

class Foo {
public:
  int threadMe(int a) {
    std::cout << "Foo::threadMe: a = " << a << std::endl;
  }
};

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
  // create an instance
  Foo* o = new Foo;

  // create pointer to static member
  int (*pStaticMemberFunction)(int);

  // assign it
  pStaticMemberFunction = &(o->threadMe);

  // call it
  (*pStaticMemberFunction)(42);

  return 0;
}