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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Has anybody fixed cdecl for "const" and "volatile"?
Message-ID: <2615@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 07:28:06 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  3 07:28:06 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Aug-87 01:56:06 EDT
Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
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I have a lot of trouble with these, since they can pop up just
about anywhere in a declaration and it takes me a long time to 
get it straight which part of the declaration they apply to.
A version of cdecl that kept it straight for me would be a big win.
Has anyone done it already?

[You could get fancy and parse function prototype declarations too,
but those are only equally hard-to-parse as the rest of C.  Const and
volatile are *harder*.  I like the ideas, but it's a shame to complicate
C's already-too-complicated declarations while adding them.]
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