Function pointers in C

Let's start with a basic function which we will be pointing to:

int addInt(int n, int m) {
    return n+m;
}

First thing, let's define a pointer to a function which receives 2 ints and returns an int:

int (*functionPtr)(int,int);

Now we can safely point to our function:

functionPtr = &addInt;

Now that we have a pointer to the function, let's use it:

int sum = (*functionPtr)(2, 3); // sum == 5

Passing the pointer to another function is basically the same:

int add2to3(int (*functionPtr)(int, int)) {
    return (*functionPtr)(2, 3);
}

We can use function pointers in return values as well (try to keep up, it gets messy):

// this is a function called functionFactory which receives parameter n
// and returns a pointer to another function which receives two ints
// and it returns another int
int (*functionFactory(int n))(int, int) {
    printf("Got parameter %d", n);
    int (*functionPtr)(int,int) = &addInt;
    return functionPtr;
}

But it's much nicer to use a typedef:

typedef int (*myFuncDef)(int, int);
// note that the typedef name is indeed myFuncDef

myFuncDef functionFactory(int n) {
    printf("Got parameter %d", n);
    myFuncDef functionPtr = &addInt;
    return functionPtr;
}

First of all, you should include the necessary header files. For strcmp you need <string.h>, for malloc <malloc.h>. Also you need to at least declare test before main. If you do this you'll notice the following error:

temp.c: In function ‘test’:
temp.c:20:5: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘strcmp’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
/usr/include/string.h:143:12: note: expected ‘const char *’ but argument is of type ‘char’

This indicates that test() should have a char * as first argument. All in all your code should look like this:

#include <string.h>      /* for strcmp */
#include <malloc.h>      /* for malloc */

int test(char*,char**);  /* added declaration */    

int main(){
    char **array;
    char a[5];
    int n = 5;

    array = malloc(sizeof(*array));
    array[0] = malloc(n * sizeof(**array));

    /*Some code to assign array values*/

    test(a, array);

    free(*array); /* free the not longer needed memory */
    free(array);

    return 0;
}

int test(char * s1, char **s2){ /* changed to char* */
    if(strcmp(s1, s2[0]) != 0) /* have a look at the comment after the code */
        return 1;

    return 0;
}

Edit

Please notice that strcmp works with null-terminated byte strings. If neither s1 nor s2 contain a null byte the call in test will result in a segmentation fault:

[1]    14940 segmentation fault (core dumped)  ./a.out

Either make sure that both contain a null byte '\0', or use strncmp and change the signature of test:

int test(char * s1, char **s2, unsigned count){
    if(strncmp(s1, s2[0], count) != 0)
        return 1;
    return 0;
}

/* don' forget to change the declaration to 
      int test(char*,char**,unsigned)
   and call it with test(a,array,min(sizeof(a),n))
*/

Also your allocation of memory is wrong. array is a char**. You allocate memory for *array which is itself a char*. You never allocate memory for this specific pointer, you're missing array[0] = malloc(n*sizeof(**array)):

array = malloc(sizeof(*array));
*array = malloc(n * sizeof(**array));