cdecl (was on the fringe of C syntax/semantics)

[Chris Torek]

In article <334 at oha.UUCP> tony at oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) writes:
>    (echo `cat` | cdecl) << \_end_
>    declare foo as pointer to function (a,b) returning pointer to
 	...
>Generates:
>    char **(*(**(*(*(*(*(*foo)(a, b))(c, d))[3])(e, f))[4][2])(g, h))[5]

This depends on your cdecl.  Old ones accept only a single `argument' in
parentheses.  This is enough to work with, although that cdecl will never
produce things like

	int (*func(short (*arg[5])(char (**)(long *(*)[3]))))(char *(*)) {
		... <code goes here, using argument `arg'> ...
	}

(which might well be a good thing!).

>So, isn't:
>    typedef int a, b, c, d, e, f;
>    (char **(*(**(*(*(*(*(*)(a, b))(c, d))[3])(e, f))[4][2])(g, h))[5])x;
>ok?

Yes, although casting `x' to something like that and then discarding the
result is not particularly exciting :-) .
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