If-statement vs function pointer

Question

The goal is to change the behaviour in an event loop, depending on whether a checkbox is toggled on or off. The simplest way, that I can think of, is just to test the checkb

Answer 1

Imho, pointers are a bit cleaner for calling routines having many arguments:

int good(int a, int b, int c, char *d) { ... }
int bad (int a, int b, int c, char *d) { ... }
int ugly(int a, int b, int c, char *d) { ... }

Direct calls:

if (is_good) {
   good(1,2,3,"fire!");
} else if (is_bad) {
   bad(1,2,3,"fire!");
} else {
   ugly(1,2,3,"fire!");
}

Indirect calls:

if (is_good) {
   f = good;
} else if (is_bad) {
   f = bad;
} else {
   f = ugly;
}

...

f(1,2,3,"fire!");