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Sb: #17149-#12
Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)

Pete,

The CDECL program is a magic aid to figuring out complex C declarations. Some
sample input:

  declare foo as pointer to function returning pointer to int
  explain char *(*woof)()
  cast yy into pointer to array 44 of int

returns the lines:

  int *(*foo)()
  declare woof as pointer to function returning pointer to char
  (int (*)[44])yy

The history of this program is UNIX. I got it out of the TOP library. Not sure
which volume (I've repacked mine onto 1.44meg disks). It comes in source and
you'll need flex and bison to complile it. I had to change the flex parser to
use readln() instead of read() to get the interactive mode to work...otherwise
(if you ignore the compile warnings ) all works fine. Very useful for the
strange declarations needed from time to time.

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