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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How to parse this?
Message-ID: <14904@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 20 Jan 91 08:31:18 GMT
References: <1991Jan19.171622.22801@santra.uucp>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Jan19.171622.22801@santra.uucp> sja@sirius.hut.fi (Sakari Jalovaara) writes:
>How about:
>	typedef char typename;
>	int f (int      (typename []));
>Is "f" compatible with
>	int f (int func (char arr[]));
>or
>	int f (int       arr[]);

I wish I understood your example..
What the standard means is that "if an identifier in such contexts
CAN be taken as a typedef name, then it SHOULD be taken as a typedef name".
And, yes, this has ramifications for parsers.