Editing Function pointer (section)

==Method pointers==
C++ includes support for [[object-oriented programming]], so classes can have [[method (computer programming)|methods]] (usually referred to as member functions). Non-static member functions (instance methods) have an implicit parameter (the ''[[this (computer programming)|this]]'' pointer) which is the pointer to the object it is operating on, so the type of the object must be included as part of the type of the function pointer. The method is then used on an object of that class by using one of the "pointer-to-member" operators: <code>.*</code> or <code>->*</code> (for an object or a pointer to object, respectively).{{Dubious|date=December 2022}}

Although function pointers in C and C++ can be implemented as simple addresses, so that typically <code>sizeof(Fx)==sizeof(void *)</code>, member pointers in C++ are sometimes implemented as "[[fat pointer]]s", typically two or three times the size of a simple function pointer, in order to deal with [[virtual methods]] and [[virtual inheritance]]{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}.