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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Quick Question
Keywords: parsing, ansi c
Message-ID: <13506@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 Aug 90 15:33:13 GMT
References: <10136@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <10136@pt.cs.cmu.edu> 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?

The former.  C declaration style is "contextual", so that whatever is
closest to the identifier happens first.