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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Verbose declarations proposal (Re: Address of Array)
Message-ID: <9898@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 87 02:56:49 GMT
References: <126@citcom.UUCP> <2550034@hpisod2.HP.COM> <1854@haddock.ISC.COM> <1449@houdi.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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Summary: You want cdecl

In article <1449@houdi.UUCP> marty1@houdi.UUCP (M.BRILLIANT) writes:
>... using the basic type declarators like int, char, etc., combined
>with a few simple phrases: "pointer to", "function returning",
>"array of", and maybe a few others.  Any complicated type declaration,
>if means anything at all, can be explained to a neophyte in these terms.

I will let this assertion pass.  Anyway ...

>	type (array[] of pointer to array[][5] of pointer to
>		function(double) returning array[3][5][7] of int) bar;
>would be synonymous with a concise type declaration that I couldn't
>write to save my life.

	% cdecl
	declare bar as array of pointer to array of array 5 of pointer
	to function(arg) returning array 3 of array 5 of array 7 of int
[the last two are a single line, broken here for clarity]
	Warning: Unsupported in C -- Function returning array
	int (*(*bar[])[][5])(arg)[3][5][7]

As you can see, this is not a legal declaration.  Also, it needs
sizes for the arrays if it is to be a type (change `int ...' to
`typedef int ...' to make bar a typedef for this type).

cdecl has been posted to the net many times; there are probably
24 copies on your machine already, each in some user's private
directory.  Why not find one and install it?
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