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From: dean@ndmath.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: question about pointers
Message-ID: <276@ndmath.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 09:39:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: ndmath.276
Posted: Tue Sep  1 09:39:25 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 3-Sep-87 01:22:31 EDT
Organization: Math. Dept., Univ. of Notre Dame
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i'll try repeating this question, as my earlier posting drew no
response. i'm hoping someone with access to a copy of the draft
proposal can answer this. the new syntax for pointer declarators
allows declarators of the form

	'*' type_specifier_list declarator.

are there any restrictions placed on the type_specifier_list?
specifically, can it be something other than a combination of
"const" and "volatile"? in particular, would the declaration

	extern * int ptr_to_int;

be legal under dpANSI-C? my own opinion is that this would be
illegal, since the declaration specifier "extern" would default
to "extern int", leading to two actual types in the declaration.

would it make any sense to change "const" and "volatile" from
type_specifiers, which they don't really seem to be, to something
like type_modifiers? the type_specifier_list in pointer 
declarators could then be changed to type_modifier_list.

dean