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From: bright@sctc.com (Dave Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Quick Question
Keywords: parsing, ansi c
Message-ID: <1990Aug7.194009.11638@sctc.com>
Date: 7 Aug 90 19:40:09 GMT
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Organization: Secure Computing Technology Corporation
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hjelm@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Mark Hjelm) writes:
>What is the correct parse of:
>    int *const *volatile a;
>a is a volatile pointer to a const pointer to an int or
>a is a const pointer to a volatile pointer to an int?

According to cdecl, choice #1:
$ cdecl
Type `help' or `?' for help
cdecl> explain int *const *volatile a;
declare a as volatile pointer to const pointer to int
$

>hjelm@cs.cmu.edu
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